We're a month out from the release of Disposable City: Miami's Future on the Shores of Climate Change, and the NYT has just given it a glowing review! I've included the review below, but you can also find it online here, and in print on page 11 of this week's Sunday Book Review, with the headline "Miami Vise." I was chatting with Mario the other day, and he told me that the pandemic is climate change on an accelerated timescale. It is an existential threat scientists warned a

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

All book sales are exciting, especially to an early career literary agent, but this one is an extra dose of fun. Mario is a college friend, and this is his debut book! Disposable City, which will be published by Nation Books (a Hachette subsidiary and part of the excellent nonprofit Nation Institute) 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). It began wi