Event

A conversation with acclaimed author David Gessner

Join Fresh Energy and Milkweed Editions for this FREE public event with acclaimed author and speaker David Gessner.

David will read from The Tarball Chronicles: A Journey Beyond the Oiled Pelican and Into the Heart of the Gulf Oil Spill. In the book, David eats, drinks, and talks his way into the heart of Gulf country—after the media left—and explores the aftermath of the spill with the oceanographers, activists, and subsistence fishermen who call the Gulf home.

Part travelogue, part manifesto (and a "brilliant, thoughtful book" according to Publishers Weekly), The Tarball Chronicles is a love letter to the Gulf that asks one simple question: how much are we willing to sacrifice to keep living the way we do?

Following the reading, Fresh Energy science policy director J. Drake Hamilton and transportation fellow Ross Abbey will host a conversation with David on the policy implications of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. A book-signing and reception will follow. Light refreshments will be provided and David's books will be available for purchase at the event.