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Sterling Lord has been a literary agent for more than 60 years.

Ken Kesey's bus

When Kerouac Met Kesey

The two counterculture heroes, one representing the Beat ’50s and one the psychedelic ’60s, had a lot less in common than you might expect

by Sterling Lord | Thursday, August 25, 2011

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2nd Look

Writing the Unimaginable

by Amitav Ghosh

Fires, hurricanes, windstorms, and more—as a changing climate wreaks havoc on the U.S., with each coming year slated to be worse than the last, we’re revisiting Amitav Ghosh’s essay from our Autumn 2016 issue. Ghosh was caught in a deadly cyclone in 1978 in New Delhi, leading him to examine how fiction writers should incorporate the devastating effects of climate change into their work. “We have entered a time in human history,” he writes, “when the wild has become the norm.”

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