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Events have overtaken Sebastian Junger’s new book Fire with the same uncertainty and rapidity of the wildfires that raced across the western United States in the title essay. What was originally supposed to be a book about dangerous professions and later remade into an compilation of essays has turned into a book tour on the fears and unknown variables of America’s expanding war in Afghanistan...
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...PLAYING WITH FIRE: Sebastian Junger's first book, "The Perfect Storm" (1997), was a huge bestseller that was made into a movie. Kirkus is betting on his follow-up book, "Fire" (Norton; October 1), giving it a starred review. "Run-for-cover writing from scary places, by Junger, a man with an appetite for the ragged edge of life and ability to write abut it with restrained power. The ten pieces in this collection of magazine articles, one of which won a National Magazine Award for Reporting, have the authentic tang of dispatches from the front...Deeply affecting stories...
...movie version of Tennessee Williams' "Suddenly Last Summer" has Katharine Hepburn quavering a haughty, mad soliloquy about herself and her unwholesome son Sebastian...
...summer long," Hepburn says, "it was Violet and Sebastian! Sebastian and Violet...