{"id":12361,"date":"2018-03-08t15:38:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-08t15:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dpetrov.2create.studio\/planet\/wordpress\/environmentalist-breaks-conventions-with-comedy\/"},"modified":"2023-02-28t18:35:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28t18:35:52","slug":"environmentalist-breaks-conventions-with-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/story\/environmentalist-breaks-conventions-with-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"environmentalist breaks conventions with comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"
michael branch isn\u2019t funny.<\/p>\n
\u201cif you\u2019re hanging out with me, i\u2019m not going to strike you as a class clown,\u201d says the pulitzer prize-nominated environmental writer. \u201cdespite my political convictions, i suffer from a case of good manners.\u201d<\/p>\n
that seems contradictory for someone a literary agent once said \u201cwrites like a drunken professorial hillbilly,\u201d but branch insists that is the voice he\u2019s cultivated for his writing \u2013 his \u201cnarrator.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cmy narrator is more fun than i am, more irreverent, more energetic,\u201d he says. \u201cit\u2019s amazing how often people will mistake me for my narrator and assume i want to stay up all night partying with them.\u201d<\/p>\n
an english professor at university of nevada, reno, branch has published eight books; more than 200 essays, articles, and reviews; and has given more than 300 invited lectures, readings, and workshops around the theme of environmentalism. his work has been taught in creative writing and environmental literature courses around the country.<\/p>\n