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posted on
April 18th, 2011
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New West ABQ/Santa Fe
based in
Santa Fe

Freak on Peak Speaks: Philip Connors' 'Fire Season'

Philip Connors has spent eight seasons in a high, isolated outpost as a wilderness lookout in the Gila Wilderness of New Mexico, the "epicenter of American wildfire," spotting fires for t ...

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posted on
April 13th, 2011
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New West ABQ/Santa Fe
based in
Santa Fe

Anthony Doerr Extends Winning Streak and New Mexico Will Star as Wyoming in 'Longmire' TV Pilot

Boise's Anthony Doerr continued his winning streak last weekend, collecting the The Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award for his story "The Deep," which came with a £30,000 pr ...

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posted on
March 29th, 2011
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New West ABQ/Santa Fe
based in
Santa Fe

How a New Mexico Find Revolutionized Archaeology

Although little visited, it was near this town in a valley of pine-covered volcanic buttes near the border of New Mexico and Colorado, that sensational discoveries were made in the last century. Th ...

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posted on
March 14th, 2011
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New West ABQ/Santa Fe
based in
Santa Fe

Boy in the Wilderness: Summer Wood's "Wrecker"

Wrecker

by Summer Wood

Bloomsbury, 290 pages, $20

Taos-based writer Summer Wood's heartfelt new novel is about the unconventional upbringing of a boy named Wrecker, who is rais ...

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posted on
January 28th, 2011
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New West ABQ/Santa Fe
based in
Santa Fe

Orlando White Explores Navajo Identity Through Language in Innovative "Bone Light"

Bone Light

by Orlando White

Red Hen Press, 64 pages, $15.95

When I heard the title of Orlando White's first book of poetry, Bone Light, and learned that White was a Navajo poe ...

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