Jason Berry is the author of “City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300” (2018) It is the topic of his newly released film.

“His optimism, a faith of sorts, is grounded in the very story he tells,” Larry Blumenfeld wrote in The Wall Street Journal, “of a city still defined by ‘pageantries and memory rituals rituals of its varied people’ and’ ‘where people of different colors and cultures have daily interactions as they have done for generations.’ His book, an indispensable history, explains both what we might take care not to lose and why it’s so easy to believe it will always be so.” www.cityofamilliondreams.com www.jasonberryauthor.com