STORY AND PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK

John Rember has spent the past several months ruminating from his cabin in the Sawtooth Valley.

It’s resulted in his latest work, “100 Little Pieces on the end of the World,” a series of meditations on late capitalist culture that add up to a forgiving—if dark—assessment of the human future.

Rember will discuss his latest work in a free presentation titled “The Way We Live Now Remix: The Metaphors of Extinction,” at 6 tonight—Thursday, Feb. 1—at Ketchum’s Community Library.

Remember a fourth-generation Idahoan, was a professor of writing for many years, serving for a time at the Pacific University MFA program in Forest Grove, Ore. From 2004 to 2014 he was Writer-at-Large at the College of Idaho in Caldwell.

His books include such short story collections as “Sudden Death, Over Time,” “Cheerleaders from Gomorrah: Tales from the Lycra Archipelago” and “Coyote in the Mountains.” His memoir “Traplines: Coming Home to Sawtooth Valley” was named the 2003 Idaho Book of the Year by the Idaho Library Association.

He also has written articles for such magazines as “Travel and Leisure,” “High Desert Journal” and “Skiing Magazine.”