Talking with Kim Stanley Robinson about “The High Sierra”

An interview for Fatherly Magazine.

This month, the great Kim Stanley Robinson published “The High Sierra,” an odd combination of memoir, natural history, mountaineering guidebook, and environmental manifesto. At one point, Robinson told me it would be his last book. Thankfully, he changed his mind, but I can see why he’d think of this as a career capstone.

https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/kim-stanley-robinson/the-high-sierra/9780316306812/

I’m both an ardent admirer of Stan’s work and an old friend of his, so I was delighted to get the chance to interview him for Fatherly magazine, as a feature in their Outside issue:

https://www.fatherly.com/entertainment/kim-stanley-robinson-cory-doctorow-climate-crisis

Given the magazine’s parenting focus, much of our interview was concerned with going outdoors with children. Stan says that conversations with kids about wilderness and the climate shoouruld start with a personal connection: “50% of the DNA inside your body is not human DNA. You yourself are a forest. You are an amazing collaboration between literally millions of individuals and thousands of species.”

He says that this sense of connection is the key to environmental advocacy, that nurturing…