Mikkel Rosengaard
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Mikkel Rosengaard
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Writer, novelist, romantic fabulist—McSweeney’s, Flash Art, Bookforum, BOMB, Guernica, Orion, etc. Author of The Invention of Ana (Morrow/HarperCollins).
Where culture is headed now?

“The hippies (…) saw the election results as brutal confirmation of the futility of fighting the establishment on its own terms. There had to be a (…) big move from pragmatism to mysticism... The thrust is no longer for "change" or "progress”, but merely to escape.”
November 23, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Reposted by Mikkel Rosengaard
All those books about the declines and falls of empires that I never read.... do they cover how dumb things were? I was unprepared for how dumb things were going to get.
November 13, 2024 at 12:59 AM
We Scandinavians like to pretend we are "green pioneer nations". In reality, the Danish fjords are dying.

For Orion, I wrote about the very last fisherman in the Øresund and how a rich island nation killed off its own seas.

orionmagazine.org/article/the-...
The Last of the Fishermen - Orion Magazine
Future Imperfect Part 2: The clash between Denmark’s agricultural industry and the movement to heal the seas
orionmagazine.org
November 13, 2024 at 9:04 PM