wildfires

The Best Story Collection About California Wildfires Isn’t a Book—It’s a Brand-New Record 

Rebecca Worby on Will Stratton’s “Points of Origin”

 
By Rebecca Worby  March 7, 2025
Book Fairs

How the San Francisco Rare Book Fair Became a Refuge from the LA Wildfires

By Julie Zigoris  March 5, 2025
Fiction/Non/Fiction

Sarah S. Grossman on the Los Angeles Wildfires

By Fiction Non Fiction  January 23, 2025
Wildfires

The Seven Books I Took With Me When Evacuating Los Angeles

By Carolyn Kellogg  January 15, 2025
Climate Crisis

Where There’s Smoke… How Wildfires Across North America Are Making Children Sick

By Debra Hendrickson  July 3, 2024
Sports

Friday Night Flames: How Wildfires Threatened One High School’s Football Season

By Madeleine Orr  May 13, 2024
Wildfires

Lightning and Land Ablaze: The Primal Terror of Living in Wildfire Country

By Manjula Martin  January 18, 2024
Poetry

The Element That Defines America: Ten Great American Poems (and a Whole Book of Poetry) About Fire

By Katie Peterson  January 11, 2024
Baillie Gifford Prize

John Vaillant’s “Fire Weather” has won the Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction.

By Jonny Diamond  November 16, 2023
Climate Crisis

Wildfires and Vanishing Coastlines: Rosanna Xia and Lizzie Johnson on Turning Their Climate Reporting into Books

By Rosanna Xia  September 29, 2023
Climate Fiction

How Writing About Climate Change Can Become a Form of Escapism

By Deborah Willis  June 15, 2023
Running

Why I Run: On Thoreau and the Pleasures of Not Quite Knowing Where You’re Going

By Rachel Richardson  October 7, 2022
Keen On

Lizzie Johnson on California’s Deadly Camp Fire

By Keen On  August 12, 2021
The Writing Life

Alix Ohlin on Navigating the Rich Literary Territory of Dysfunctional Family Dynamics

By Jane Ciabattari  July 27, 2021
The Longest Year: 2020+

Land of Smoke and Fire: Documenting California’s Endless Season of Heat

By Jeff Frost and Lauren Markham  July 21, 2021
The Literary Life

Richard Flanagan on Writing (and Rewriting) Through the Devastating Bushfires in Tasmania and Australia

By The Literary Life  July 9, 2021
Activism

Facing Crisis Together: On the Revolutionary Potential of Mutual Aid

By Alisa Bohling  December 21, 2020
Wildfires

Rick Bass on Salvaging America’s Forest Arks Against the Coming Fire

By Rick Bass  October 15, 2020
Wildfires

On the Ground Fighting a New American Wildfire

By Kendall Johnson  August 12, 2020
Essay

When the Wildfires of Your Novel Come to Life Around You

By Julia Dixon Evans  April 25, 2018
News

Bookselling After the Fires: Napa Needs You

By Elayna Trucker  November 13, 2017
Essay

Cinder and Smoke in the Land of Jack London

By J.P. Grasser  October 23, 2017
Short story writers

The Legends of Sonoma Mountain

By Greg Sarris  October 23, 2017
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