Tracy Daugherty's Let Us Build Us a City reconsiders the role of literature in our world. Drawing from some of the most influential writers and thinkers of the twentieth century, Daugherty poses questions that face anyone engaged in the arts today. These thoughtful, deeply considered, and provocative essays encourage the reader to engage with the unknown, to embrace 'the mystery and power of creating new worlds, ' and to take part in building what Daugherty calls 'a creative and imaginatively generous society'–exactly the sort of society we should aspire to.–Peter Turchi "author of Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer "