What exactly Letteraterra is?
Letteraterra – Stories of Humans, Animals, and Worlds
An Ecocritical Notebook of a Literary Wanderer
"Letteraterra" explores the intersection of literature and sustainability, offering a unique perspective on how literary works can illuminate and inspire our relationship with the environment and a sustainable future.
Sustainability is not only an inevitable catastrophe but also a possible utopia.
It all depends on how capable we are of changing our lifestyle, thoughts, and needs.
But to change behavior, it’s essential to investigate the human soul, and literature is undoubtedly the boundless territory to explore to uncover a thousand new ways of being in the world.
"Letteraterra" is a journey through literature in search of the complex nature of sustainability.
A map to understand, imagine, and realize a more sustainable world, merging the richness of literary tradition with the urgency of contemporary environmental challenges.
What’s In?
we will sow among other things:
Ecocritical analysis of classic or freshly sprouted literary works.
Biographies and conversations with authors who have tackled environmental, social, and economic issues in their writing.
Reflections on new ways in which literature and the arts, in general, can influence our perception and approach to sustainability.
Musings on how to integrate the lessons of literature into everyday life for a more sustainable future.
Speculations about the environmental impact of literature and publishing.
Reviews of books related to environmental humanities.
Analysis of literary characters and their relationship with nature.
Comparisons between utopian and dystopian visions of the environment.
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Who’s in?
I’m a hybrid creature felt from the 90s net culture space into the literary and book world. I began my professional journey designing, coding, and managing ICT projects and everything that needed a computing machine to work. I ended up writing about sustainability in the daylight for a green office in a big University and novels and short stories at night.
By subscribing to the Letteraterra newsletter you are entering my Ikigai zone.
I love strolling through stories, books, libraries, bookshops, forests, seas, mountains, parks, hiking, paddling, and sailing, and so I decided that was the moment to do it for a living.
I’m not a native English speaker but I decided to accept the challenge: telling the world something about literature and nature, writing in English.
Can words assembled in good stories from the past, at present, and in the future, help to make sustainability effective and a priority for people and decision-makers? Can great literature advocate for the planet?
That’s why I’m Writing Letteraterra and that’s why probably someone will pay a few dollars a month for it, sooner or later.
For now, the ride is free so enjoy the ride and feel free to send advice, ideas, opinions, or any kind of feedback and interaction you like but do not forget to spread the word.
Hold fast and join the crew.
The newsletter wants to be much more than a publishing product. It is a community of interests that brings together authors, readers, publishers, scholars, scientists, activists, plants, animals, and lands all together to foster ecocriticism as a way to advocate nature.
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