David Lipsky is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Absolutely American and Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself, which became the basis for the movie The End of the Tour. He has written for Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, and New York, and he is a recipient of the National Magazine Award and the GLAAD Media Award. He teaches writing and literature at New York University and lives in New York.
Where can a person living on a melting planet turn, at least before the spaceship fleet is ready, for enlightenment? I'd start, and finish, with David Lipsky's brilliant epic The Parrot and the Igloo, which I devoured in a single, feverish, page-turning sitting, a perspective-altering dream, a story told in language as sharp and clear as the spring air we knew before all the carbon was released.... You will stare out the same windows when you've finished, but nothing will look the same. -- Rich Cohen, New York Times best-selling author of Sweet and Low and Monsters Captivating and disturbing.... An important book that will leave your head shaking. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Humor accompanies horrific truths in this vital look at the rise of climate change denial. With dry wit and novelistic flair, National Magazine Award winner Lipsky chronicles how harnessing electricity changed the world....[R]evelatory...sobering and incisive. Buoyed by thorough historical research, this is a first-rate entry. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Award-winning author Lipsky takes the reader on a journey through the evolution of climate change denial...With the amount of research that went into this book, this can be considered the historical record to date. -- Booklist The best nonfiction book I've read in decades. And the best book of its kind I've ever read. -- Darin Strauss, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Half a Life