Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout
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“Fire Season both evokes and honors the great hermit celebrants of nature, from Dillard to Kerouac to Thoreau—and I loved it.”
—J.R. Moehringer, author of The Tender Bar
“[Connors’s] adventures in radical solitude make for profoundly absorbing, restorative reading.”
—Walter Kirn, author of Up in the Air
Phillip Connors is a major new voice in American nonfiction, and his remarkable debut, Fire Season, is destined to become a modern classic. An absorbing chronicle of the days and nights of one of the last fire lookouts in the American West, Fire Season is a marvel of a book, as rugged and soulful as Matthew Crawford’s bestselling Shop Class as Soulcraft, and it immediately places Connors in the august company of Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, Aldo Leopold, Barry Lopez, and others in the respected fraternity of hard-boiled nature writers.
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Philip Connors. (2011). Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout. HarperCollins.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Philip Connors. 2011. Fire Season: Field Notes From a Wilderness Lookout. HarperCollins.
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Philip Connors has worked as a baker, a bartender, a house painter, a janitor, and an editor at the Wall Street Journal. His essays have appeared in n+1, Harper's, the Paris Review, and the Best American Non-required Reading anthology. He lives in New Mexico with his wife and their dog.
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“Fire Season both evokes and honors the great hermit celebrants of nature, from Dillard to Kerouac to Thoreau—and I loved it.”
—J.R. Moehringer, author of The Tender Bar“[Connors’s] adventures in radical solitude make for profoundly absorbing, restorative reading.”
—Walter Kirn, author of Up in the AirPhillip Connors is a major new voice in American nonfiction, and his remarkable debut, Fire Season, is destined to become a modern classic. An absorbing chronicle of the days and nights of one of the last fire lookouts in the American West, Fire Season is a marvel of a book, as rugged and soulful as Matthew Crawford’s bestselling Shop Class as Soulcraft, and it immediately places Connors in the august company of Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, Aldo Leopold, Barry Lopez, and others in the respected fraternity of hard-boiled nature writers.
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"[A] lyrical, masterly debut from a first-class writer." — Men's Journal
"[A] finely, wryly, at times poetically wrought first book. . . . Connors has succeeded in weaving many stories into one [and has found] a voice and new literary life in arid terrain where I, for one, had suspected there was little new life to be found." — New York Times Book Review
"A fine prose stylist with a splendid eye for detail, Connors allows his readers to see the natural beauty he witnesses. . . . All lovers of nature will understand the allure and wonder that Connors so gracefully describes." — Minneapolis Star Tribune
"This is a book for all nature lovers, and more importantly, those who fail to see the beauty of the natural world. Connors' prose is so mesmerizing, so enthralling, that even the most committed city dweller will be tempted to head for a remote, quiet destination." — Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
"[T]his is modern nature writing at its very finest." — Daily Beast
"[R]eading this book is like taking a vacation in beautiful scenery with an observant and clever guide. So relax and enjoy." — Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers
"Compelling and introspective, Fire Season lingers like a good poem." — New Mexico Magazine
"Philip Connors is the typical run-of-the-mill U.S. Forest Service employee. Except, you know, he can write like hell. . . . This book is great, like Norman-Maclean-'Young-Men-and-Fire' great." — Mountain Gazette
"[A] compelling study of isolation, wildness, and 'a vocation in its twilight'." — The New Yorker
"[A] quietly moving love letter to a singular place. By the last page, I wanted to hike up to the tower, sip some whiskey with him and just look." — Los Angeles Times
"[R]ife with breathtaking moments. . . . [T]o turn the last page of Fire Season is to emerge from a journey that enlightens and leaves the reader hungry for more." — Denver Post
"Entertaining and informative. . . . Connors mixes natural, personal, and literary history in this remarkable narrative." — New West
"This book captures all that is grand about our western wilderness." — Vail Daily
"For those lacking the freedom, gumption or plain will power to taste such a romantic life for themselves, simply reading Connors' account sure is fun." — Deseret News
"Fascinating. . . . Connors' narrative is crisp and accessible." — The Tucson Citizen
"[E]ngaging. . . . [Connors] sends thoughtful word from deep in the wilderness. . ." — Seattle Times
"A clear overview of America's shifting attitude toward its own wilderness. . . . [H]is affection is catching." — Portland Mercury
"[A] fascinating personal narrative . . . and a poetic tribute to solitude and the natural world." — Paris Review Daily
"[A] fascinating, pyro-charged reflection. . . . For a man so drawn to solitude, Connors has a particular knack for writing characters. . . . [Fire Season] proves a nifty way to shake off the last of winter's cold." — Cleveland Plain Dealer
"An excellent book, an entertaining read, and a lot of food for thought. . . . Without doubt, this was the most enjoyable read I've had all year." — National Parks Traveler
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January 17, 2011
For almost a decade, former Wall Street Journal reporter Connors has spent half a year keeping vigil over 20,000 square miles of desert, forest, and mountain chains from atop a tower 10,000 feet above sea level. One of a handful of seasoned, seasonal fire-watchers in New Mexico's Gila National Forest, Connors introduces us to his wilderness in this ruminative, lyrical, occasionally suspenseful account that bristles with the narrative energy and descriptive precision of Annie Dillard and dovetails between elegiac introspection and a history of his curious and lonely occupation. Poet Gary Snyder, environmental advocate Edward Abbey, and beat novelist Jack Kerouac once stood watch over the woods, but today, 90% of American lookout towers have been decommissioned, with only a few hundred remaining. The world at large intrudes in Connors's account of contented isolation only in a discussion of evolving forest fire–fighting policies, in which advocates of ruthlessly suppressing fires are pitted against a new generation of Forest Service professionals who choose, when it's safe, to let forest fires burn themselves out.
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—J.R. Moehringer, author of The Tender Bar“[Connors’s] adventures in radical solitude make for profoundly absorbing, restorative reading.”
—Walter Kirn, author of Up in the AirPhillip Connors is a major new voice in American nonfiction, and his remarkable debut, Fire Season, is destined to become a modern classic. An absorbing chronicle of the days and nights of one of the last fire lookouts in the American West, Fire Season is a marvel of a book, as rugged and soulful as Matthew Crawford’s bestselling Shop Class as Soulcraft, and it immediately places Connors in the august company of Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, Aldo Leopold, Barry Lopez, and others in the respected fraternity of hard-boiled nature...
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