JORDAN FISHER SMITH
Saturday, May 20 at 4 p.m.

First published a year ago to high praise, Jordan Fisher Smith’s Nature Noir: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra (new in paper, Houghton Mifflin) is a powerful chronicle of his fourteen years as a park ranger in the Sierra Nevadas. "This is a walk in the woods like Thoreau never imagined. I can't make up my mind whether Jordan Fisher Smith is John Muir at the crime scene or Elmore Leonard with a backpack...this astonishing book, with its brilliant interweaving of murder, irony, and natural history, invents a new genre." - Mike Davis. "Jordan Fisher Smith writes of the present moment as if from some vantage point in the future. The effect is eerie, and part of what makes Nature Noir so compelling. Smith's is a refreshingly unsentimental kind of truth-telling." - Barry Lopez.

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