Fascinating, thought-provoking, and necessary, Brian Thills Waste is about not just our present but our future. You cant read it and come out of the experience unchanged. * Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times-Bestselling Author of The Southern Reach trilogy * If 'waste,' as Brian Thill points out, is any object plus time, then Waste is waste plus spirited curiosity and tremendous intelligence. With a gaze full of vigor and heart, Thill looks at the fate of what we discardfrom space junk to horse corpses to bird bellies split open from plasticand illuminates invisible margins wed often rather forget. I read the whole book in one sitting, spellbound. * Leslie Jamison, New York Times-Bestselling Author of The Empathy Exams * Waste is the finest filth aroundor really the finest mediation of it I can think of: Thill looks deeply into how what we waste controls us at the level of the personal and the publicour discards become our fate and home bothand finds treasure. * Alexander Chee, author of Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night * Waste pluralizes, names a condition into which objects fall, takes us beachcombing, dumpster diving. `Waste is every object, plus time The true aim of Brian Thills book, however, is that non-place to which waste is sent. We cannot afford to believe in such a zone any longer. Of course, we never really could or did out of sight was simply out of mind. Waste always kept coming back. -- Julian Yates * Los Angeles Review of Books *
