"les Rencontres" - interview with Michelle Min Sterling

Listen to author and critic Erica Wagner in conversation with Michelle Min Sterling, writer of “Camp Zero”, her first novel published by Bragelonne in 2023, in which she imagines a futuristic world confronted with the consequences of climate change. Through this conversation with Erica Wagner, Michelle Min Sterling discusses the origins of her novel and her sources of inspiration, both historical and contemporary, and describes her relationship with the genres of dystopia and utopia in literature. Together, they also evoke the role of women in her story and the way fiction can raise awareness of environmental issues.As part of the Rendez-vous littéraires rue Cambon [Literary Rendezvous at Rue Cambon], the podcast "les Rencontres" highlights the birth of a writer in a series imagined by CHANEL and House ambassador and spokesperson Charlotte Casiraghi.Michelle Min Sterling, Camp Zero © Atria Books, 2024 © The Globe and MailCamp Zero reads like a chronicle of the present © David Moscrop, 2023 © The London Times Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling review byHouman Barekat © The London Times, 2023Omar El Akkad, American War, Knopf, 2017Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower © Hachette, 2019Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam Trilogy, Penguin Random House, 2014The Dispossessed. Copyright © 1974 by Ursula K. Le Guin. An edition of this book was published in 1974 by Harper & Row, Publishers.Severance by Ling Ma. Copyright © 2018 by Ling Ma. Used by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. All Rights Reserved.