AdvertisementAfter His Brother's Suicide, Writer Seeks Comfort In 'All The Wrong Places'February 24, 2015facebookEmailPhilip Connors' first book Fire Season was about how he spent a few months every year for eight years as a fire lookout, living in a cabin and scanning the horizon with binoculars atop a 45-foot tower in a remote region of New Mexico. (Courtesy of W.W. Norton & Co.)