NPR’s Books We Love:
The Last Fire Season

The Rebellion of a Fruitless Apple Tree
The New Yorker
by Manjula Martin
As the rest of our culture thrives on overexposure, why shouldn’t a garden have the right to retain an air of mystery?

"Lush, Reciprocal Entanglements," LA Review of Books

Manjula Martin explores the hidden costs and radical potential of humanity’s enduring hobby in Olivia Laing’s “The Garden Against Time.” LA Review of Books

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”

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

The Best Memoirs of 2024 (So Far)
by Nicole Chung

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

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

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

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’

A Soundtrack for an Unfolding Climate Disaster, The New Yorker
by Manjula Martin

There is no longer a question of whether fire will come to us; it’s only a matter of when.

Place and Purpose podcast
hosted by Obi Kaufmann and Greg Sarris

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

by Stephen Pyne

18 New Books To Read This January

“These new books could be some of the best reads of 2024”

STARRED ADVANCE REVIEW:
The Last Fire Season

The Age of Inescapable Wildfire:
A conversation with Manjula Martin about her new book The Last Fire Season

Does it pay to be a writer?

From private experience to public testament, how editors handle personal essays

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

Planning to grow fruit trees? Start here.

It’s Not My Job to Give You Hope: A Conversation Between Emily Raboteau and Manjula Martin for the LA Review of Books