The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History

Ellie Eberlee lives in Brooklyn and edits for the Los Angeles Review of Books and The American Scholar. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Guernica, and The Believer, among other publications.

Ellie Eberlee

Sadness and Strange Beauty: On Manjula Martin’s “The Last Fire Season”

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

Fire in the Canyon

Smoke and Mimesis: On Daniel Gumbiner’s “Fire in the Canyon”

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

Ellie Eberlee lives in Brooklyn and edits for the Los Angeles Review of Books and The American Scholar. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Guernica, and The Believer, among other publications.

Ellie Eberlee

Articles

Sadness and Strange Beauty: On Manjula Martin’s “The Last Fire Season”

Smoke and Mimesis: On Daniel Gumbiner’s “Fire in the Canyon”