“The Night Drinker”
| Title | “The Night Drinker” |
| Year for Search | 2019 |
| Authors | Urrea, Luis Alberto(b. 1955) |
| Secondary Title | McSweeney’s 58. 2040 A.D. |
| Volume / Edition | 58 |
| Pagination | 48-68 |
| Date Published | 2019 |
| Publisher | McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern |
| Place Published | San Francisco, CA |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | The story is set in Mexico City and is described as “A Chronicle of the last days of Tenochtitlan, Built on Lake Texcoco, known now as Mexico City, Home of the Ancient Gods. 2040 A.D. (From the Notebooks of Joaquin Hernandez III, Historian, Found in the Ruins of Iztapalpa, 2045). Mexico City is one of the last place standing after multiple climate change disasters that destroy both land and sea and produce huge shifts in population. |
| Info Notes | The authors of the stories were each “assigned a specific climate event mentioned” in the 2018 UN climate report collaborating with experts recommended by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) who “provide a scientific backbone” for the stories while giving the writers free rein to determine how closely they adhered to that science” (6-7). The Introduction to the volume (7-12) is by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Chief Program Officer of the NDRC. |
| Illustration | Illus. Wesley Allsbrook |
| Holding Institutions | PSt. PU |
| Author Note | The author (b. 1955) was born in Mexico of U.S. parents and is distinguished professor of creative writing at the University of Illinois at Chicago. |
| Full Text | 2019 Urrea, Luis Alberto (b. 1955). “The Night Drinker.” Illus. Wesley Allsbrook. 2040 A.D. McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern 58 (Winter 2019): 49-65. PSt, PU The story is set in Mexico City and is described as “A Chronicle of the last days of Tenochtitlan, Built on Lake Texcoco, known now as Mexico City, Home of the Ancient Gods. 2040 A.D. (From the Notebooks of Joaquin Hernandez III, Historian, Found in the Ruins of Iztapalpa, 2045). Mexico City is one of the last place standing after multiple climate change disasters that destroy both land and sea and produce huge shifts in population. The authors of the stories were each “assigned a specific climate event mentioned” in the 2018 UN climate report collaborating with experts recommended by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) who “provide a scientific backbone” for the stories while giving the writers free rein to determine how closely they adhered to that science” (6-7). The Introduction to the volume (7-12) is by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Chief Program Officer of the NDRC. The author was born in Mexico of U.S. parents and is a distinguished professor of Creative Writing at the University of Illinois at Chicago. |
