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Fires in the Gila

By Philip Connors

By Philip Connors, from “Diary of a Fire Lookout,” in the Summer issue of The Paris Review. Connors has worked for the past seven summers as a fire lookout in the Gila National Forest, in New Mexico.

June 4, 2007

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SEE ALSO: Biography; Fire lookouts; New Mexico; Connors, Philip; Prevention and control; Wildfires
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November 2009

FINAL EDITION
Twilight of the American Newspaper
By Richard Rodriguez

THE INTELLIGENCE FACTORY
How America Makes Its Enemies Disappear
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A story by Christine Schutt

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