…EZRA KLEIN: Bill, thank you so much for the time today. It's such a pleasure. And I know you're coming to us from Egypt and at an odd time for you. But always our final question — what are three books that have influenced you, you would recommend to the audience?
BILL MCKIBBEN: Well, three recent ones — you've talked a good deal with my dear friend Kim Stanley Robinson and about his book "Ministry for the Future," which is wonderful. But because I love New York City so much, my favorite of his books and my favorite novel about climate change is a book called "New York 2140," which couldn't be more fun and in a certain odd way more cheerful.
Speaking of cheerful, the best writer about realistic hope, it seems to me, at the moment is Rebecca Solnit. And her most recent book was about one of my greatest literary heroes, George Orwell. But it's called "Orwell's Roses," and it was about his relationship with the natural world. And it's a beautiful, beautiful book.
And good news for all of us, Wendell Berry has a brand new set of short stories tracing his community, "The Port William Membership," just out. It came out on Election Day. And I think the title is "How it Went." So those are mine right now.
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