Fire lookout Philip Connors` reckoning in `A Song for the River`
(LA Times NBA)

`Fire Season,` published in 2011, felt like an instant classic. A soulful and surprising mediation on the life of a fire lookout, the book placed Philip Connors on a shelf beside giants of Western literature, including Norman Maclean, Wallace Stegner and Edward Abbey. A few years later, a second...