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Dear Readers: I just read a review about my memoir, Ahead of the Flaming Front: A Life on Fire, which I quote as it appears: If you are going to read memoirs about fire fighters, here are the two you must start with: Young Men and Fire by Norman McLean and Ahead of the Flaming …
One semester in grad school we read for a nonfiction class two memoirs. One was Geronimo’s Bones and the other was A Million Little Pieces. It was quite a coincidence that during that semester they were both uncovered as frauds to one degree or another and that fired the debate about the truth in nonfiction. …
The four squad-bosses gathered around the wildfire-truck. We had been assigned to dig and secure a section of fire-line that dove into a steep canyon and then in burn it off to create a firebreak and hold it through the late afternoon. At the end of the day we debriefed
My forthcoming collection of essays is also available here (page 56). http://issuu.com/tamupress/docs/tamupressfall2012. It’s also under My work online in the sidebar.