Research Guides: Common Book Program: Rising: Book & Author Resources

About VCU's Common Book: Author & Book

Elizabeth Rush's author website
Elizabeth Rush's page for Rising on her professional website.
Elizabeth Rush's faculty website
Elizabeth Rush's faculty website for Brown University, where she is a Visiting Lecturer in English.
New Orleans Public Radio Interview: Author Elizabeth Rush: A Year Later
Two 6-minute interviews Elizabeth Rush had with New Orleans Public Radio.
Public Books Interview: Listening to Those on the Frontline of Climate Change
The transcript of Elizabeth Rush's interview with a writer from Public Books, a magazine of arts, ideas, and scholarship.

Book Reviews

Goodreads reviews
"With every passing day, and every record-breaking hurricane, it grows clearer that climate change is neither imagined nor distant--and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways."
New York Times
"A drowned world: It’s an ancient fear and a very old story."
Publishers Weekly
"Timely and urgent, this report on how climate change is affecting American shorelines provides critical evidence of the devastating changes already faced by some coastal dwellers."

Oregon Humanities Center: Interview with Elizabeth Rush

Writer Elizabeth Rush, author of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, discusses her book and reads a passage. Her book offers a sensitive view of American communities routinely impacted by rising sea levels. Rush gave a talk titled "On Rising Together: Creative and Collective Responses to the Climate Crisis" on March 5, 2020 as the Oregon Humanities Center's 2019–20 Robert D. Clark lecturer.