Living With Fire When It’s Fire Season All Year Round
by Jennifer Szalai

How California’s worst fire season — so far — became a writer’s most powerful metaphor

Manjula Martin’s searing memoir, The Last Fire Season, recounts her experience living through the 2020 Northern California wildfires in mesmerizing prose.

Sadness and Strange Beauty: On Manjula Martin’s “The Last Fire Season”

'The Last Fire Season' describes what it was like to live through Calif.'s wildfires

Amazon.com Editors’ Pick: Best Memoirs, January 2024

Santa Rosa Press Democrat:
West Sonoma County writer Manjula Martin reflects on living in the age of wildfire in ‘The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History’

KQED FORUM: Manjula Martin’s ‘The Last Fire Season’ Reflects on Living with Wildfire

OPINION: No matter the weather, climate change means it’s always ‘fire season’
by Manjula Martin

Searching for meaning in a world aflame: A metaphor-filled memoir bears witness to our fraught existence in the age of wildfires

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STARRED ADVANCE REVIEW:
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The Age of Inescapable Wildfire:
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Why More Writers Should Talk About Money

The art of revealing your salary

Writers and Money: The Millions Interviews Manjula Martin

What writers talk about when they talk about money

Writing, Prestige and Other Things That Don’t Pay the Rent

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