#Performances
#About the event
Mark O'Connell in conversation with Michaela Kalowski about his book Notes from an Apocalypse - this conversation premiered on our YouTube channel on September 15, 2020 and is available for viewing.
In the remote mountains of Scotland, in high-tech bunkers in South Dakota and in the lush valleys of New Zealand, small groups of determined men and women are getting ready.
They are environmentalists who fear the ravages of climate change; billionaire entrepreneurs dreaming of life on Mars; and right-wing conspiracists yearning for a lost American idyll. One thing unites them: their certainty that we are only years away from the end of civilization as we know it.
Not unconcerned himself by the possibility of the end of days, Mark O’Connell set out to meet them.
#Watch the conversation
#Buy Notes from an Apocalypse
You can buy Mark's book, Notes from an Apocalypse, from our friends at The Library Shop at the State Library of Queensland.
#Artists
Mark O'Connell
Mark O'Connell is the author of To Be a Machine which was awarded the 2019 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize and short-listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. He lives in Dublin.
Michaela Kalowski
Michaela Kalowski is an interviewer and facilitator. She regularly interviews and conducts panel discussions at writers and ideas festivals. She's presented radio programs & conducted interviews on ABC RN, Local Radio and Classic FM. Recent interviews include Margaret Atwood, Trent Dalton, Holly Ringland and Tim Flannery.
