Griffith Review 86

Excerpt: ‘Adventures in the apocalyptic style: Preppers and the end of everything’

This is an excerpt from an essay I wrote for the Australian literary journal Griffith Review, titled ‘Adventures in the apocalyptic style: Preppers and the end of everything’. The essay is, in turn, part of a much longer book project about survivalist and prepper subcultures around the world, working title: We Are All Preppers Now….

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The Domestication of Disaster

A writer reflects on the challenges of covering environmental catastrophe in longform *Editor’s note: This article is from our archives. It originally appeared in Literary Journalism vol. 15, no. 1 (2021).  When my book Hazelwood came out in June last year, it was born into a world much-changed from the one it had been conceived…

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