Fascinating, thought-provoking, and necessary, Brian Thill's Waste is about not just our present but our future. You can't read it and come out of the experience unchanged.
Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times-Bestselling Author of The Southern Reach trilogy
If 'waste,' as Brian Thill points out, is any object plus time, then Waste is waste plus spirited curiosity and ... Read moretremendous intelligence. With a gaze full of vigor and heart, Thill looks at the fate of what we discard-from space junk to horse corpses to bird bellies split open from plastic-and illuminates invisible margins we'd often rather forget. I read the whole book in one sitting, spellbound.
Leslie Jamison, New York Times-Bestselling Author of The Empathy Exams
Waste is the finest filth around-or really the finest mediation of it I can think of: Thill looks deeply into how what we waste controls us at the level of the personal and the public-our discards become our fate and home both-and finds treasure.
Alexander Chee, author of Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night
Waste pluralizes, names a condition into which objects fall, takes us beachcombing, dumpster diving. `Waste is every object, plus time'... The true aim of Brian Thill's book, however, is... that non-place to which waste is sent. We cannot afford... to believe in such a zone any longer. Of course, we never really could or did - out of sight was simply out of mind. Waste always kept coming back.
Julian Yates
Los Angeles Review of Books
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