Before becoming a freelancer, Brian Francis Slattery was senior editor of the Journal of International Affairs, the public-policy journal of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). He hold a masters in international affairs from SIPA, specializing in economic development and international law, and a bachelor of arts in English from Williams College. 
Lost Everything by Brian Francis Slattery
Lost Everything, by Brian Francis Slattery, is a surprisingly small-bore and quiet post-apocalyptic novel. Where many deal with destruction on a country-wide or global scale and follow near-epic quests by some doomed or maybe-doomed survivors, Slattery takes his characters through a just-as-ravaged countryside but it all seems a little more domestic than the usual sort of end-of-the-world tale, a twist that is both the book’s strength and its weakness.
The world has seemingly been in the grips of ecological disaster,
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