ESSAYS & FEATURES

• ROLLING STONE | “JOURNAL OF A PROGRESSIVE PREPPER” | MAY 2021 - “It’s March 7th, 2020 and I’m at the Louisville Survival Expo & Gun Show, the last ‘prepper’ event of its kind before the Covid-19 pandemic shuts the country down. … Admission is $12, but I spring for the $14.50 VIP option, which allows me to skip the line. There is no line.” [full article]

• FATHERLY | “STAY-AT-HOMESTEADING” | MAY 2020 - “I felt confident the pandemic would pass without civilization crumbling (more confident than I feel now), but wondered if this ellipsis could be a useful dry run—an opportunity to prepare my family for the potentially much larger toll of climate change. We’ve decided it’s real and imminent, and we are totally unprepared.” [full article]

• FATHERLY | “LOVE REQUIRES CHANGE AND PROBABLY PAIN. THAT’S FINE.” | FEBRUARY 2019 - “Heartbreaks force us to consider change, work harder, be kinder, show a different side, evolve into a slightly different human being that gets invited back to play.” [full article]

• LIT HUB | “CAN PARENTHOOD BE THE ARTIST’S BEST TOOL?” | JANUARY 2019 - “Like my father, I wrote a book that considers the nature of time—a coming-of-age tale that features the drugs of its era (in his book, booze and heroin; in mine, psychedelics and performance enhancers). And like most sons, I experienced that double-edged fear: that my book might not be as good as his; or that it might be better.” [full article]

• SALON | “WAS MY GRANDFATHER BATMAN?” | NOVEMBER 2018 - “Milt attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, a storied alma mater of countless entertainment luminaries including comic book legends Will Eisner, Stan Lee, and the co-creators of Batman: Bob Kane and Milton ‘Bill’ Finger. What I didn’t realize until recently was that they graduated the same year, 1933, and Milt was an orphan, just like Bruce Wayne.” [full article]

• JEWISH BOOK COUNCIL | “ONLY WE CAN SAVE US: A BRIEF HISTORY OF JEWISH SUPERHEROES” | NOVEMBER 2018 - “But what if we stopped looking, stopped waiting, stopped crying out for someone else to lead us to salvation? What if we instead found superpowers within, a way to catalyze a new future rather than replaying the past?” [full article]

FEATURES, INTERVIEWS & EXCERPTS

• LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER | “PROFESSOR CHRIS BEGLEY TURNED OP-ED ON APOCALYPSE INTO NEW BOOK | THE NEXT APOCALYPSE” by Linda Blackford | NOVEMBER 2021 - “The author, Adam Nemett, wrote an entertaining story for Rolling Stone about the expo, and said Begley’s vision had convinced him “it’s not the lone wolf Rambo operator that’s going to survive, it’s the politician who can cooperate, and trade and coexist. The lone rugged individualism will probably just get you killed.” [full article]

• THE PATRON SAINT OF SUPERHEROES | “THE LOST COMIC BOOK OF ADAM NEMETT” by Chris Gavaler | OCTOBER 2019 - “There’s so much that can be done in the graphic novel, but I’ve watched WE CAN SAVE US ALL play out in my head so many times, with music and choreography and the kinds of elements that are difficult to place on the page, and it would be a thrill to see someone adapt it into a series and take it in compelling new directions that I never considered.” [full article]

• LOS ANGELES TIMES | “TRUMP, IMMIGRATION, DYSTOPIAS ARE TOPICS ON LAST DAY OF L.A. TIMES FESTIVAL OF BOOKS” by Cindy Chang | APRIL 2019 - “Nemett said he created the pre-apocalyptic world in his book, which is mostly like our world, by finding a “10% conceit or a 10-degree shift I could add to the situation to make it similar yet different.” [full article]

• THE CAVALIER DAILY | “DYSTOPIAN NOVELS REFLECT OUR CURRENT MILIEU” by Joseph Riley | MARCH 2019 - “Christina Dalcher, as a linguist, was terrified by the prospect of having a limit on the number of words she could say, while Nemett feared that climate change would eventually limit people’s ability to control their lives. While both ‘VOX’ and ‘We Can Save Us All’ begin in necessarily dark places for the American public, they also have in common a faith in the human spirit.” [full article]

• ADVICE TO WRITERS | “ATW INTERVIEW: ADAM NEMETT” | MARCH 2019 - “Go get 50 rejections, then keep grinding. Most people can’t deal with rejection, so if you make it through those first 50 you’ve surpassed most of the field, thickened your skin, gotten on the gatekeepers’ radar, and received a ton of useful feedback that’s made you a better writer. Now, march forth.” [full article]

• THE RING-TUM PHI - W&L UNIVERSITY | “AUTHOR ADAM NEMETT DISCUSSES RECENT NOVEL, WE CAN SAVE US ALL” | MARCH 2019 - “Nemett said during his talk in Northen Auditorium that he’s noticed the younger generation receiving a lot of criticism, most of which he believes is unfounded. ‘Your generation is among the most inquisitive and hardworking people, with a tangible sense of purpose,’ Nemett said.” [full article]

• THE QWILLERY | “2018 DEBUT AUTHOR CHALLENGE INTERVIEW” | DECEMBER 2018 - “The book deals with, among other things, class privilege, climate change, spirituality/mutual aid societies vs. cults/authoritarianism, the value of liberal arts education vs. knowledge of trade skills, polyamorous relationships, hero worship, and sexual assault.” [full article]

• LIT HUB | “WE CAN SAVE US ALL: EXCERPT” | DECEMBER 2018 - “The notion had been weighing on him: that there was something inherently more noble about knowing how to fell a tree or skin a fox or rebuild a carburetor compared with the high-minded skills that made one attractive to Ivy League admissions officers.” [full excerpt]

• MEDIUM | “COLLEGE, CULTS AND THE END OF THE WORLD” by Bryan Walsh | DECEMBER 2018 - “I’m generally optimistic that while the status quo as we know it is toast, and there are going to be a lot of really difficult painful changes that we have to adapt to, I think humans have shown an ability to adapt and improvise and survive.” [full article]

• PRINCETON ALUMNI WEEKLY | “ADAM NEMETT ‘03 IMAGINES END DAYS” by Nina Sheridan | DECEMBER 2018 - “Who is responsible for fixing our world? In his debut novel We Can Save Us All (The Unnamed Press), Adam Nemett ’03 offers a comedic, yet terrifying, look at the chaos in the world around us.” [full article]

• THE RUMPUS | “ON SAVIORS AND SUPERHEROES: A CONVERSATION WITH ADAM NEMETT” by Rachel Lyon | DECEMBER 2018 - “If we choose to hide in bunkers and kill each other over canned goods, I think we’re done. If we can teach and learn from each other, and find some kind of balance that supports both practical skills and human culture—the music and art that makes life worth living—I think we’ll make it.” [full article]

• WORK-IN-PROGRESS | TBR: WE CAN SAVE US ALL BY ADAM NEMETT” by Leslie Pietrzyk | DECEMBER 2018 - “I really enjoyed writing Haley Roth, the female protagonist of the book, probably because she was the most challenging to write. She’s both the moral center of the book and yet she operates in a moral gray area, but ultimately she’s the heart of the story and maybe the one true superhero.” [full article]

• LIT HUB | “ARE THERE LESSONS TO BE LEARNED FROM THE PROTESTS OF THE 1960S?” by Clara Bingham | NOVEMBER 2018 - “I don’t think armed warfare is the answer at all. I think there’s a middle ground, combining bold, theatrical disruption and non-violence, and that’s what I was trying to go for in the book.” [full article]

• C-VILLE WEEKLY | “DANCING WITH DISASTER: ADAM NEMETT OFFERS HOPE FOR THE FUTURE IN WE CAN SAVE US ALL” by Elizabeth Derby | NOVEMBER 2018 - “What if this destructive period is building something very progressive and evolved—a model for how civilization and communities can and should exist in the future?” [full article]

REVIEWS

• LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS | “WARNING TO HEED: ON ADAM NEMETT’S WE CAN SAVE US ALL” by Dan Hajducky | FEBRUARY 2019 - “Adam Nemett’s debut novel, We Can Save Us All, is Fight Club by way of Don DeLillo with a side of Pynchon, and addresses the undeniable spiraling of real-world climate change. Nemett, a graduate of Princeton himself, is an established director; his 2005 film The Instrument was called by LA Weekly “damn near unclassifiable.” In the best possible way, so is his debut novel.” [full article]

• THE COACHELLA REVIEW | BOOK REVIEW by David M. Olsen | DECEMBER 2018 - “The novel is a work that seems to consider our current environment and how the millennial and future generations will survive given the past generation’s lack of empathy for our planet. … This is a thoughtful narrative that is well worth the effort. I highly recommend it.” [full article]

• BARRELHOUSE | BOOK REVIEW by Katharine Coldiron | DECEMBER 2018 - “It’s a great ride, this book; it’s a novel I couldn’t put down after I started it, and I can’t stop thinking about it after finishing it. … a phenomenally interesting book, one that I could read two or three times with the sensation of reading a different book each time.” [full article]

• THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW | “THE END IS NEAR IN TWO DYSTOPIAN DEBUT NOVELS” by Antonia Hitchens | NOVEMBER 2018 - “The sincerities of both Nemett and his characters [are] refreshing in their vulnerability. … Nemett captures a group whose unfettered exuberance is seldom found in today’s novels.”  [full article]

• BOOKRIOT | “WE CAN SAVE US ALL IS AN IVY LEAGUE FIGHT CLUB” by Christine Ro | NOVEMBER 2018 - “We Can Save Us All is wonderfully unhinged. … The book is a biting look at millennial masculinity.” [full article] 

• TOR.COM | “FIGHT WITH A VIM AND YOU’RE DEAD SURE TO WIN: ADAM NEMETT’S WE CAN SAVE US ALL” by Jared Shurin | NOVEMBER 2018 - “A timely and horrifying look into youth radicalisation; the power of the narratives that we assign ourselves.” [full article]

• LIBRARY JOURNAL | STARRED REVIEW by Henry Bankhead | NOVEMBER 2018 - “This is an unlikely but timely contribution to the ongoing #MeToo dialog as well as humorous riposte to concerns about society and the environment. Highly recommended.” [full article]

• FOREWORD REVIEWS | BOOK OF THE DAY by Katie Asher | OCTOBER 2018 - “Adam Nemett’s We Can Save Us All is a humorous yet sobering pre-apocalyptic scenario. Realistic and smart, this is science fiction at its best.” [full article]

• BOOKLIST | STARRED REVIEW by Alexander Moran | OCTOBER 2018 - “Incredible debut … Nemett’s wondrously fresh novel positively bursts with charm, heart, and invention.” [full article]

• KIRKUS REVIEWS | SEPTEMBER 2018 - “Hey, what if a book was like Fight Club (1996) but instead of fights, everyone takes a heroic dose of drugs and plays superhero?” [full article]

• PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY | SEPTEMBER 2018 - “Nemett’s refreshing and high-energy novel has the heart and moral tension of a superhero story and the growing pains of a bildungsroman.” [full article]

LISTS

• C-VILLE WEEKLY’s “2018 LOCAL AUTHORS ROUNDUP” | DECEMBER 2018

• NATIONAL BOOK REVIEW’s “5 HOT BOOKS” OF THE WEEK | NOVEMBER 2018 - “[We Can Save Us All] has a propulsive energy hurtling these self-involved, self-important, and self-righteous radical activists into the future.” [full article]

• BRIT & CO BOOK CLUB’s “3 NEW BOOKS THAT ARE SO PUNK (AND POST-PUNK) IT HURTS” | NOVEMBER 2018 - “In this punk world, the end is always near, and nobody’s going to escape.” [full article]

• LIBRARY JOURNAL’s “51 STELLAR TITLES” | NOVEMBER 2018 - “A starred review from LJ denotes an exceptional title that is an essential purchase for most libraries.” [full article]

• BOOKLIST’s “TOP 10 DEBUT NOVELS OF 2018” | NOVEMBER 2018 - “Nemett’s staggeringly inventive and charming, preapocalyptic debut follows David Fuffman, a comics-obsessed freshman at Princeton in 2021, who is indoctrinated into a cadre of oddball superhero-wannabes confronting the climate crisis.” [full article]

• LIT HUB’s “16 BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ IN NOVEMBER” | NOVEMBER 2018 - “What is made so persistently and heroically clear is that we self destruct and in that destruction search for the remnants of reason so as to try to reconstruct the next prototype. I’m happy to let Adam write our way through.” [full article]

• CRAFT LITERARY’s “NEW BOOKS: NOVEMBER” | NOVEMBER 2018

• BOOKLIST’s “BEST NEW BOOKS” | NOVEMBER 2018

• TOR.COM’s “ALL THE NEW GENRE-BENDING BOOKS COMING OUT IN NOVEMBER” | NOVEMBER 2018

• BOOKRIOT’s “20 AWESOME POST-APOCALYPTIC BOOKS OF 2018” | OCTOBER 2018 - “The apocalypse hasn’t arrived just yet, but it’s certainly on its way; the water level is already rising. A Princeton group (that’s kinda cult-y) thinks it may have the answer.” [full article]

• PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY’s “BIG FALL FICTION” | JUNE 2018 - “The Egg is a geodesic dome in which alienated Princeton students prepare for the end of days in the near future. As the final superstorm nears, its denizens, now with a cult-like following, toe the line between right and wrong.” [full article]

RADIO & PODCASTS

• PAGE ONE by BOOXBY | “EP. 9 - ADAM NEMETT “WE CAN SAVE US ALL” | DEC 2021 [listen here]

• LUMINA JOURNAL | “IN CONVERSATION WITH ADAM NEMETT” | MAY 2020 [listen here]

• HISTORY FACTORY | PLUGGED IN | “SUPER HEROES” | OCTOBER 2019 [listen here]

• SKYLIGHT BOOKS AUTHOR READING SERIES | “SIX YEARS OF UNNAMED PRESS” | APRIL 2019 [listen here]

• APROPOS OF SOMETHING | “TACKLING GLOBAL DESTRUCTION” | MARCH 2019 [listen here]

• DAD FROM SCRATCH | “EP. 8 - AUTHOR ADAM NEMETT” | MARCH 2019 [listen here]

• LIFE ELSEWHERE | “ANNUAL HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE 2018” | DECEMBER 2018 [listen here] - segment starts around 29:00

• THE AVID READER | “WE CAN SAVE US ALL by ADAM NEMETT” | DECEMBER 2018 [listen here]

• PROFESSIONAL BOOK NERDS | “DECEMBER’S BIGGEST BOOKS” | NOVEMBER 2018 [listen here]

• LIFE ELSEWHERE | “THE CHAOS & UNKNOWING OF CONTEMPORARY LIFE” | NOVEMBER 2018 [listen here]

• BE REEL | “HEROES FROM HELL” | NOVEMBER 2018 [listen here]

• HOME GROWN | “SAVING US” | NOVEMBER 2018 - 94.7 WPVC [listen here]