Mar 12 2012 7:00 pm
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Debut novelist Philip Connors will read from and sign Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout. Connors was the Leisure & Arts editor at The Wall Street Journal for several years. In 2002, he left lower Manhattan behind for a seasonal job as a forest fire lookout near Apache Peak in the Gila National Forest of New Mexico. Now annually spending five months each year in a 7' x 7' tower, his tasks are simple: keep watch over one of the most fire-prone forests in the country and sound the alarm at the first sign of smoke. Destined to become a modern classic in the vein of Edward Abbey and Annie Dillard, Fire Season is a meditation on nature, on marriage, written on old Olivetti typewriter, in one of the last fire lookouts in the American West. Connors' writing has appeared in n+1, Harper's, London Review of Books, The Nation, and elsewhere. He lives with his wife in southern New Mexico. Fire Season is available for immediate download--see below. |
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Monday, March 12, 7 p.m. 
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