Brickell flooding during Hurricane Irma. MATT MCCLAIN THE WASHINGTON POST In September 2018 I sold my fellow Middlebury alum Mario Ariza's debut book Disposable City to Nation Books (now called Bold Type Books). That book is a deeply personal investigation of the present and future peril of sea level rise and climate warming in the Magic City (a harbinger for coastal cities worldwide). Mario is hardly the only Miamian thinking about the fate of their low-lying coastal city. I

More than 215,000 students have experienced gun violence at school since Columbine, and that number doesn’t count the parents, siblings, teachers, and community members also directly affected. There are whole communities grieving and whole generations altered by these tragedies. Survivors of school shootings dating back fifty years -- since the 1966 University of Texas at Austin shooting -- and the families and friends of those who did not survive, have lived with their traum