Uncertain though you may be as to the correct pronunciation of “kcymaerxthaere,” don’t linger too long on that; the first thing to know about kcymaerxthaere is that it doesn’t really exist, at least not in the realm of our physical universe. Invented by, as The Believer put it, “the grandson of the designers of the most famous piece of modern furniture,” kcymaerxthaere “memorializes the slow death of Main Street by building an alternate universe.” Eames Demetrios is an itinerant geographer with an anthropologist’s and a poet’s disposition. Tonight, Meltdown hosts the author for a reading and launch party for the fourth volume of the KCY Travel Guide. For the record, it’s “ky-MAR-ex-theere.”

– Shana Nys Dambrot