{"id":9602,"date":"2019-08-15T10:47:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T14:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=9602"},"modified":"2019-08-15T10:47:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T14:47:56","slug":"roy-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/roy-scranton\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5296\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-9602-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/royscranton.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/royscranton.mp3\">https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/royscranton.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><figure id=\"attachment_9611\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9611\" style=\"width: 248px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9611\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/RS-by-Ola-Kjelbye-closeup-BW.jpg?resize=248%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/RS-by-Ola-Kjelbye-closeup-BW.jpg?resize=248%2C300&amp;ssl=1 248w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/RS-by-Ola-Kjelbye-closeup-BW.jpg?resize=768%2C929&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/RS-by-Ola-Kjelbye-closeup-BW.jpg?resize=846%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 846w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/RS-by-Ola-Kjelbye-closeup-BW.jpg?resize=696%2C842&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/RS-by-Ola-Kjelbye-closeup-BW.jpg?resize=1068%2C1292&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/RS-by-Ola-Kjelbye-closeup-BW.jpg?resize=347%2C420&amp;ssl=1 347w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/RS-by-Ola-Kjelbye-closeup-BW.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/RS-by-Ola-Kjelbye-closeup-BW.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9611\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo: Ola Kjelbye<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/royscranton.com\/\">Roy Scranton<\/a> is the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/604949\/i-heart-oklahoma-by-roy-scranton\/9781616959388\/\"><em>I &#x2665; Oklahoma!<\/em><\/a> (Soho Press, 2019), <em><a href=\"https:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/chicago\/T\/bo40851121.html\">Total Mobilization: World War II and American Literature<\/a> <\/em>(University of Chicago Press, 2019), <em>We\u2019re Doomed. Now What? <\/em>(Soho Press, 2018), <i>War Porn<\/i> (Soho Press, 2016), and <i>Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization<\/i> (City Lights, 2015).<\/p>\n<p>He has written for the <i>New York Times<\/i>, <i>Rolling Stone<\/i>, <i>The Nation<\/i>, the <em>New Republic, <\/em><em>The Baffler<\/em>, <em>Yale Review<\/em>, <i>Boston Review<\/i>, and elsewhere, and he co-edited <em>What Future: The Year\u2019s Best Ideas to Reclaim, Reanimate &amp; Reinvent Our Future <\/em>(Unnamed Press, 2017) and <i>Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War<\/i> (Da Capo, 2013).<\/p>\n<p>He grew up in a working-class family in Oregon, dropped out of college after his freshman year, and spent his early twenties wandering the American West. In 2002, he enlisted in the US Army and served four years, including a fourteen-month deployment to Iraq. After leaving the Army at the rank of sergeant, he completed his bachelor\u2019s degree and earned a master\u2019s degree at the New School for Social Research, then earned a PhD in English at Princeton. His essay \u201cLearning How to Die in the Anthropocene\u201d was selected for the <i>2015 Best American Science and Nature Writing<\/i>, he was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences at Rice University, and he has been awarded a Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities and a Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction.<\/p>\n<p>He currently lives in South Bend, Indiana, with his partner and daughter, and is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, where he teaches creative writing.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9612\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Scranton_TM.jpg?resize=640%2C962&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Scranton_TM.jpg?resize=681%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 681w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Scranton_TM.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Scranton_TM.jpg?resize=768%2C1154&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Scranton_TM.jpg?resize=696%2C1046&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Scranton_TM.jpg?resize=1068%2C1605&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Scranton_TM.jpg?resize=279%2C420&amp;ssl=1 279w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Scranton_TM.jpg?w=1288&amp;ssl=1 1288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9613\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/lo-res-I-heart-ok.jpeg?resize=467%2C700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/lo-res-I-heart-ok.jpeg?w=467&amp;ssl=1 467w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/lo-res-I-heart-ok.jpeg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/lo-res-I-heart-ok.jpeg?resize=280%2C420&amp;ssl=1 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/royscranton.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listRoy Scranton is the author of I &#x2665; Oklahoma! 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