Rain Like Cotton in Best American Essays

All I can say for this is yay! I am thrilled and beyond honored and even more so as this year's editor is Hilton Als whose writing I adore and who I teach every year to my students. You can find the essay here if you want to read sooner... It is about an inland sand sea, climate collapse 13,000 years ago, Nabokov’s endangered butterfly, the Shakers, the strip mall, the landfill... longing. Basically it's about climate change and extinctions...  And Best American Essayswill be out in fall 2018.