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In a 2021 piece for the Los Angeles Times, “Climate Crisis Is Here; So Is Climate Fiction. Don’t You Dare Call It a Genre,” novelist Lydia Millet, who often addresses environmental issues in her work, wrote that when it comes to the topic of climate change, “we don’t have the luxury of genrefication, with its thrilling rejections of social reality and its reliance on satisfyingly happy endings.

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Lookout Santa Cruz — When Santa Cruz's only big surf industry company, O'Neill Wetsuits, put on an event in October that for the first time included females, it could've been a happy story of progress at last. Instead it "came off wrong," according to many who followed it closely, and the company has said very little...

Speaker and brand adviser Terri Trespicio doesn’t mince words when it comes to New Year’s resolutions. “I hate them,” she says. “They’re a champagne-soaked promise you feel you should make because it sounds like something you wish you would do.”

In Unfollow Your Passion (Atria, Dec.), Trespicio aims to “flip the bird at all the advice that we’ve heard,” such as the

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