Friday, November 8th 2013  4-7pm
New Orleans, LA

Antonia will join the festivities in NOLA. We hope you can come!

Press St./Room 220 Literary Series, at the All-Ways Lounge
Unfathomable City multi-author reading and party
Rebecca Solnit, Evan Casper-Futterman, Khaled Hegazzi and Andy Young will read.

Antonia contributed the essay, “Oil & Water,” to this beautiful groundbreaking “Atlas” of New Orleans.

Like the bestselling Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, this book is a brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, one that provides a vivid, complex look at the multi-faceted nature of New Orleans, a city replete with contradictions. More than twenty essays assemble a chorus of vibrant voices, including geographers, scholars of sugar and bananas, the city’s remarkable musicians, prison activists, environmentalists, Arab and Native voices, and local experts, as well as the coauthors’ compelling contributions. Featuring 22 full-color two-page-spread maps, Unfathomable City plumbs the depths of this major tourist destination, pivotal scene of American history and culture and, most recently, site of monumental disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill.

The innovative maps’ precision and specificity shift our notions of the Mississippi, the Caribbean, Mardi Gras, jazz, soils and trees, generational roots, and many other subjects, and expand our ideas of how any city is imagined and experienced. Together with the inspired texts, they show New Orleans as both an imperiled city—by erosion, crime, corruption, and sea level rise—and an ageless city that lives in music as a form of cultural resistance. Compact, lively, and completely original, Unfathomable City takes readers on a tour that will forever change the way they think about place.

Location:
Press St./Room 220 Literary Series, at the All-Ways Lounge
New Orleans, LA

Contact:
Rebecca Snedeker
rebsned[at]gmail.com