John D’Agata with Ben Marcus

When:
Time:

Wednesday 16 February 2011
7:00 pm

Where:

Lensic Performing Arts Center

211 West San Francisco Street
Santa Fe, NM 87501
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John D’Agata

John D’Agata published his first book, Halls of Fame, a collection of lyric essays, in 2001 and Annie Dillard c… Read full bio.

Ben Marcus

Ben Marcus is the author of three books of fiction: Notable American Women, The Father Costume, and The Age of Wire a… Read full bio.

About this Event

John D'Agata: About a Mountain

Congressmen, dairy carts, ballroom dancers, Meadows Chevy, the Organization of Ladies Kazoo Post-92 from Laughlin—over two hundred different entries marching past us for three hours. All of them being appluaded, waved at, snapshot. Broadcast on the news, on local public access, on video-phone recordings that were posted to the web. The parade was called by one newscast “the happening of the century!” A local blogger wrote that “something special happened here!” A radio host asked listeners if “all that really happened?” And the mayor swore that this parade was going to be remembered “as one of the greatest things to ever happen in Las Vegas.” And while I wasn’t born there, and have since then moved away, during the summer I lived in Vegas I began to feel those claims, appealing in their hopefulness the way parades appeal, the way a list appeals to those with faith in withheld meanings: the dream that if we linger long enough with anything, the truth of its significance is bound to be revealed.

- From About A Mountain.

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This was a Lannan Literary Event.