Date/Time
Date(s) - 02/16/2015
7:00 pm
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Location
Light Hall Auditorium
1000 W. College Avenue
- Silver City, NM
Philip Connors’ New Book Launch:
All the Wrong Places: A Life Lost and Found
Philip Connors, author of Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout (2011), celebrates the publication of his new memoir, All the Wrong Places: A Life Lost and Found, on Monday, February 16, 2015, at Light Hall, 1000 W. College Street, in Silver City NM, at 7:00pm.
This event launches Connors’ 12-city book tour to promote “All the Wrong Places” and features Connors introducing and discussing this new work. Copies of the book will be available for sale and signing. The public is invited to attend, at no charge.
Amazon describes the new release as “All the Wrong Places is a searingly honest account of the aftermath of his (Connors’) brother’s shocking death, exploring both the pathos and the unlikely humor of a life unmoored by loss…. this is the story of a man paying tribute to the dead by unconsciously willing himself into all the wrong places… this is a powerful look back at wayward years—and a redemptive story about finding one’s rightful home in the world.”
Connors lives and writes in Silver City and in the Aldo Leopold Wilderness. In the award winning Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout (2011) he recounts his eight summers living in solitude on a mountain top in the forests of southwestern New Mexico. In his new memoir he tells the story of what made solitude on the mountain so inviting and welcome.
Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout (2011) was Connors’ debut creative non-fiction work and was the winner of the Banff Mountain Book Competition Grand Prize, the National Outdoor Book Award, the Reading the West Book Award, the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award, and was a finalist for the Orion Book Award.
The February 16 event is sponsored by the Southwest Festival of the Written Word (SWFWW) and Western New Mexico University (WNMU).
Connors will also speak-along with more than 30 writers-at the 2015 Southwest Festival of the Written Word, Friday October 2-Sunday, October 4, in historic downtown Silver City NM.
Visit www.swwordfiesta.org for more information on the Festival.
For more information on Philip Connors, visit www.philipconnors.com