The Fire Next Time

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.2 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Brendan I. Koerner talks about “Megafire” and “Firestorm,” and Henry Fountain discusses “The Great Quake.”

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0:00.0	Our massive wildfires and inevitable part of our future landscape, Brendan Carner joins
0:09.6	us to talk about two new books, Firestorms and Mega Fire.
0:13.9	How did one giant earthquake in North America change our understanding of the planet?
0:18.3	Henry Fountain will tell us about his new book, The Great Quake.
0:21.7	Alexander Alter will give us an update from the literary world, plus we'll talk about
0:25.3	what we and the water world are reading.
0:27.4	This is Inside the New York Times Book Review.
0:29.2	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:32.8	Brendan Carner joins us now.
0:36.3	He is the author most recently of a fantastic book, The Skies Belong to Us, Leventur, in
0:41.4	the golden age of hijacking.
0:43.5	That came out in 2013.
0:45.5	2013.
0:46.5	Has it been that long?
0:47.5	It has.
0:48.5	Oh my god.
0:49.5	It's such a great book.
0:50.5	Anyway, we're not here to talk about that excellent book, but to talk about two reviews
0:54.5	in this week's issue, Two Books, Mega Fire, The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic
0:59.9	of Flame by Michael Kodas and Firestorm.
1:03.7	How Wildfire will shape our future by Edward Strusek.
1:08.7	We'll talk about those two books.
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