Roy Scranton’s fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in the Boston Review, LIT, The New York Times, Theory & Event, New Letters, The Massachusetts Review, the Daily Beast, and elsewhere. He is co-editor of Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War (Da Capo, 2013). He lives in New Jersey.
ARTICLES FEATURING ROY
Frozen as the Oceans Rise: On “We’re Doomed. Now What?”
Sharon Kunde challenges Roy Scranton’s fatalist view of climate change....
When the Hurlyburly’s Done: Roy Scranton’s “War Porn”
Roy Scranton’s new novel “War Porn” calls into question mindsets rampant on both sides of the Iraq War....
Impurity: Two Books on the Anthropocene
The bibliography on life during climate change has swelled in recent years. Purdy and Scranton each offer a powerful reckoning with our bewildering present....
Danger Close: The Iraq War in American Fiction
While most of the country tries to forget the Iraq War ever happened, American Iraq fiction compels readers to take a perilous ride....
