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Porter Fox

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Porter Fox was born in New York and raised on the coast of Maine. His book Northland, about travels along the U.S.-Canada border, will be published by W.W. Norton in July, 2018. He lives, writes, teaches and edits the award-winning literary travel writing journal Nowhere in Brooklyn, NY. He graduated with an MFA in fiction from The New School in 2004 and teaches at Columbia University School of the Arts. His fiction, essays and nonfiction have been published in The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, Outside, Men’s Journal, National Geographic Adventure, Powder, TheNewYorker.com, TheParisReview.com, Salon.com, Narrative, The Literary Review, Northwest Review, Third Coast and Conjunctions, among others. In 2013 he published DEEP: The Stor ...more

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	Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border 3.62 avg rating — 2,157 ratings — published 2018 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	DEEP: The Story of Skiing and the Future of Snow 3.93 avg rating — 252 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Winter: The Scientists, Adventurers, Journeymen, and Mavericks Trying to Save the World 3.99 avg rating — 238 ratings — published 2021 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Category Five: Superstorms and the Warming Oceans That Feed Them 3.87 avg rating — 221 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Last Stand of Free Town, The by Porter Fox (Goodreads Author), Brian Holsopple (Reader) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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NORTHLAND Book Club Tonight!

NORTHLAND Book Club #3: Seven Fires, tonight, 8/23.

Click on the link below at 8pm EDT to join the discussion and ask questions... Looking forward to it!

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See you at 8pm!

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“To those who have struggled with them, the mountains reveal beauties that they will not disclose to those who make no effort. That is the reward the mountains give to effort. And it is because they have so much to give and give it so lavishly to those who will wrestle with them that men love the mountains and go back to them again and again. The mountains reserve their choice gifts for those who stand upon their summits.—Sir Francis Younghusband”
― Porter Fox, DEEP: The Story of Skiing and the Future of Snow

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“This is the native home of hope,” Wallace Stegner wrote of the American West.”
― Porter Fox, DEEP: The Story of Skiing and the Future of Snow

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“Nothing is impossible. You are only limited by fear and even that you can overcome. —Seth Morrison”
― Porter Fox, DEEP: The Story of Skiing and the Future of Snow

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