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Amy Brady

Amy Brady is the executive director and publisher of Orion magazine and coeditor of The World as We Knew It: Dispatches from a Changing Climate. Brady has made appearances on the BBC, NPR, and PBS. She holds a PhD in literature and American studies and has won writing and research awards from the National Science Foundation, the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, and the Library of Congress.

Amy loves meeting readers and would love to visit your next book club, virtually or perhaps in person. Reading guides for Ice are available. Amy will also send virtual book club organizers a stack of signed bookplates, so even virtual book club members can get their copies signed!

Feb. 19, 2024

The History of Ice in the United States

Today, Americans consume 400 pounds of ice a year, each. That would have been unfathomable to people in the 18th century, but a number of innovators and ice barons in the 19th and 20th centuries changed the way we think abou…
Guest: Amy Brady