Fri, Jan 24
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Kyle Paoletta, American Oasis Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest
This richly reported work of history and contemporary travelogue tells the epic, fantastical story of five sun-scorched metropolises that, having risen mirage-like from the desert, give us insights into how our urban civilization might survive—even thrive.” —Hampton Sides, author The Wide Wide Sea
Date, Time & Location
Jan 24, 2025, 6:00 PM MST
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
This will be an in-store event and live streamed to Zoom, register for Zoom here.
Pre-order American Oasis ($30, hardcover) from CW online here or call the store to order (505)988-4226.
An expansive and revelatory historical exploration of the multicultural, water-seeking, land-destroying settlers of the most arid corner of North America, arguing that in order to know where the United States is going in the era of mass migration and climate crisis we must understand where the Southwest has already been.
Albuquerque. Phoenix. Tucson. El Paso. Las Vegas. Iconic American cities surrounded by desert and rust. Teeming metropolises that seem to exist independently of the seemingly inhospitable and arid landscape that surrounds them, belying the rich insight they offer into American stories of migration, industry, bloodshed, and rebirth.
Charting a geographic path through America’s largest and hottest deserts, acclaimed journalist Kyle Paoletta maps the past and future of these cities, and the many other settlements from rural town to urban sprawl that make…