My review of Manjula Martin ("manjula" on bluesky) 's THE LAST FIRE SEASON is finally up at Earth Island Journal earthisland.org/journal/index.…

For Writer's Digest, I wrote about the power of names to shape and misshape us and our characters. I'm joined by Katie M. Flynn, R.O. Kwon 권오경, Manjula Martin ("manjula" on bluesky), Sasha Vasilyuk, and Brandi Wells.
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The great Nicole Chung | @nicolechung on Bluesky is rounding up the Best Memoirs of 2024 for Esquire! Here, you'll find her first batch of straight bangers. esquire.com/entertainment/…

ICYMI - Author Jasmine Guillory recommended THE LAST FIRE SEASON by Manjula Martin ("manjula" on bluesky) on the Today Show! 🥳

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(Playground bully voice) Nice luminous debut, did an exciting new voice write it?

Another little taste of Manjula Martin ("manjula" on bluesky)'s THE LAST FIRE SEASON is up now on ELLE Magazine (US). It gives you a good sense of the 'impressive command of both the story and its stakes' that ALTA just praised her for. Pantheon Books
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“Like the rest of the natural world, women’s bodies have historically been idealized as both fonts of fertility and objects of purity, ripe for possession—with harmful and lasting results.” Thanks Literary Hub jane ciabattari for this conversation!
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'In the spirit of Rebecca Solnit & Terry Tempest Williams, Martin’s knowledge of nature & the land illuminate every page. With The Last Fire Season, she joins the ranks of esteemed, provocative nature writers who use their own experiences to examine our past and our future.'

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Manjula Martin “bristles at the notion of pristine organic matter that can only be harmed by interventions. ‘The problem with the idea of untouched nature is that nothing ever is,’ she writes.” Jennifer Szalai reviews Martin’s “The Last Fire Season.” nyti.ms/3Ocihcl

Colonial mythologies, chronic pain & climate crisis - wrote about Manjula Martin ("manjula" on bluesky)’s exquisite new memoir for Los Angeles Review of Books

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My memoir, THE LAST FIRE SEASON, is out now from Pantheon Books. It's a story about fire, the relationships between landscapes and people, and the experience of having a body on Earth right now. Pick it up at an independent bookshop near you, or at bookshop.org/p/books/the-la….

in which i explain the title of my book:
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