Atomic Summer: An Essay by Joni Tevis

Joni Tevis | The World Is On Fire: Scrap, Treasure, and Songs of Apocalypse | Milkweed Editions | May 2015 | 28 minutes (7,494 words)
Below is Joni Tevis’s essay “Damn Cold in February: Buddy Holly, View-Master, and the A-Bomb,” from her book The World Is On Fire, as recommended by Longreads contributing editor Dana Snitzky. This essay originally appeared in The Diagram. Read more…