![]() ![]() The title refers to a renegade radio "station" of the same name whose motto is "underground, underpowered and underfoot." Its instigator is Vern Barclay, and the book opens with him patching into a tepid acoustic Peter Frampton song that's streaming at a Bennington Starbucks. ![]() But it has even more to do with creative resistance to an increasingly horrifying direction in which the nation at large is headed - and, yes, President Donald Trump is mentioned by name.ĭespite that jarring reference to reality - and McKibben's use of the actual names of Vermont reporters and news outlets - Radio Free Vermont is unquestionably a fiction. Residents of the Green Mountain State will immediately surmise that the book has something to do with the secessionist movement, and they'll be right. Now comes his debut novel, Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance. That prescient volume has been published in 24 languages, and McKibben has written more than a dozen others since - all of them nonfiction. The guy whose 1989 book The End of Nature ushered the alarming idea of global warming into public consciousness. ![]() Who knew Bill McKibben could be silly? Yes, that Bill McKibben: the award-winning environmental author and activist, cofounder of the grassroots climate movement 350.org, and the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College. ![]()
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