The first book by MacArthur "Genius" grant winner Ben Katchor in ten years, The Cardboard Valise follows three residents of the same tenement and while they never meet, their lives overlap in a imaginative fictional world that features restroom ruins and an island whose inhabitants eat nothing but canned food. Emile Delilah loves foreign nations and is addicted to travel; Boreal Rinse is an exiled king; and Elijah Salamis is determined to erase cultural and geographic boundaries. The Cardboard Valise will be released by Pantheon on March 15.