As Tom Comitta notes in the Preface to The Nature Book, readers of fiction (too) often gloss over description of nature, but this session invites readers to really pay attention to nature writing, in all its marvelous variety. Comitta’s stunningly inventive volume collages passages of nature writing from dozens of English-language novels into a cohesive narrative, removing all references to the human world and compelling readers to focus on flora and fauna, weather and geology, as they’ve been described by great writers over time. Erica Berry’s Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear is also a collage of sorts, this one combining elements of memoir, criticism, science, and history to create a rich and kaleidoscopic portrait of an evocative animal. Animals are also the focus of Talia Lakshmi Kolluri’s debut collection What We Fed to the Manticore; each story is told from the point of view of a different animal, from the man-eating tigers of the title story to a hound tasked with guarding one of the world’s last remaining white rhinos. Set aside your human concerns for an hour and immerse yourself in the beautiful urgency of nature writing, in this session moderated by Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí, a community reporter with KQED’s digital engagement team.