Cost: $85 per person, which includes a three-course lunch (alcohol excluded) and a paperback copy of American Oasis
Join Los Poblanos and the Santa Fe International Literary Festival at La Quinta Cultural Center at Los Poblanos for a Literary Luncheon with Kyle Paoletta. Paoletta’s celebrated 2025 book American Oasis is an expansive and revelatory historical exploration of the multicultural, water-seeking, land-destroying settlers of the most arid corner of North America: the Southwest. As his journey into this region's history becomes inextricably linked to an exploration of its dependency on water, he begins to ask: Where, ultimately, will cities find themselves once the Colorado River and its branches dry up? Richly reported and sweeping in its history, American Oasis is the story of what one iconic region’s past can tell us about our shared environmental and cultural future.
Registration opens at 10:30 a.m. The talk will begin at 11:30 a.m., followed by a light three-course lunch. A paperback copy of American Oasis is included in the ticket price. Hardcover copies and additional related titles will also be available for purchase from our friends at Bookworks before and after the event.