The Puma Years

by Laura Coleman

When the last tree is cut, when the last animal is hunted, when the last river is polluted, it will be then that man will realise that money cannot be eaten

In her visionary essay from 1986, “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction,” she talks about how it might be possible to change the way stories are told—moving away, perhaps, from the violent power of singular heroes. Towards collaboration and compost, cooperation and connection.