In 2011, writer Philip Connors recounted his experiences as a wilderness lookout in southwestern New Mexico in the award-winning field narrative, Fire Season. In a new memoir, All the Wrong Places, A Life Lost and Found, published this month by Norton, Connors reveals the family tragedy that set him on a journey of discovery and introspection that eventually led to the solace of that 50-foot tower. Connors signs copies of the new book on February 19 at Bookworks in Albuquerque and on February 20 at Collected Works in Santa Fe.
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In this longer version of the conversation, Philip Connors talks about how the process of writing about his family tragedy, and sharing it with readers, helped give some narrative sense to a shapeless experience.
