“Atomic Dreams Book Launch with Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow” (Yale Environmental Humanities)

Yale Environmental Humanities is pleased to host a lunch book talk on Wednesday, April 30, from 12:00pm-1:00pm with journalist, New Havener, and Yale College alum Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow on her new book, Atomic Dreams: The New Nuclear Evangelists and the Fight for the Future of Energy, published in April by Algonquin Books.  Atomic Dreams is an inside look at the decades-long fight over the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant and the debate over nuclear power’s place in the battle against climate change.

 

Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow is a journalist based in Southern California. Her writing has appeared in print or online in the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, The Nation, the Washington Post, the Times Literary Supplement, and The Guardian, among other publications. She is the author of Personal Stereo, which was named one of Pitchfork’s favorite music books of 2017, and The G Ring, a Kindle single. 

 

She was previously a contributing writer for the Boston Globe’s Ideas section and a contributing editor at Dissent. Her work has received support from the Robert B. Silvers Foundation, the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, and UC Irvine’s Newkirk Center for Science and Society. 

 

At this event, she will be in conversation with Paul Sabin, the Randolph W. Townsend, Jr. Professor of History and Professor of American Studies and Faculty Director for Environmental Humanities at Yale. Lunch will be served.