Jeannine Hall Gailey – Revontulet
Revontulet Revontulet is the Finnish word for “Foxfire,” also for the Northern Lights The night we saw the Northern Lights here in Seattle, it was raining iguanas in Florida, snowing in Mobile. So, why not, the tails of spirit foxes, as the Finnish believed, calling the aurora “foxfire.” My ancestors, Appalachians in the Smoky Mountains, […]
Jeannine Hall Gailey’s Field Guide to the End of the World, Reviewed by Stephanie Chan
Jeannine Hall Gailey Field Guide to the End of the World Moon City Press Reviewer: Stephanie Chan There is a deeply empathetic tone throughout Jeannine Hall Gailey’s Field Guide to the End of the World. The book is divided into sections—“Disaster Studies,” “Cultural Anthropology,” “Hard Science,” “A Primer for Your Personal Genome Project,” “End Times […]
Jeannine Hall Gailey – Post-Apocalypse Postcard from the Viceroy Hotel, Santa Monica
Post-Apocalypse Postcard from the Viceroy Hotel, Santa Monica I woke up and laid out by the pool, still blue and inviting, the swim-up bar emptied of everything but ice buckets. Oh, for ice. There was something falling from the sky, tiny and white, but it wasn’t snow. It was ashes. Ashes of what? The roses […]
