an interview by Aileen Keown Vaux for therumpus.net Once in a great while, a novelist comes along with the ability to dazzle the crowd with their own taxonomy-defying creation. In her debut novel, Fire Season, Leyna Krow deftly weaves together elements of magical realism, historical fiction, and traditional westerns to make something so much greater than …
One of the hazards in the fast-growing American cities of the late 1800s was fire, and the Northwest was no exception. Most of us are familiar with the 1889 blaze that reshaped Seattle’s streets, but Spokane fell victim to flame in the same year. Unlike the Seattle fire, Spokane’s conflagration remains unexplained, which enables Leyna …
Every April, Philip Connors leaves behind civilization–his wife, bartending job and small-town life in New Mexico–to work as a fire lookout. In Fire Season he captures all of the beauty and enchantment of spending a summer in solitude, in a lookout perched high above the Gila Wilderness, while sparing the reader any sense of monotony …
“This first-time author has written a vivid account of his time as a fire lookout in a very remote section of the Gila National Forest in New Mexico. A bartender in Manhattan during most of the year, come the start of fire season Connors is back at his post at his lookout, escaping the madness …
For ten years, Portland author Philip Connors has been working as a fire lookout for the Forest Service in New Mexico. He lives alone in a cabin on a 10,000-foot peak. His office is a lookout tower, where searches for small plumes of smoke that could be 100 miles away. Ecco will publish his memoir, Fire …
