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DESCRIPTION:John Vaillant is an author and freelance writer based in Vancou
 ver\, whose work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, National 
 Geographic\, and The Guardian. His journalism\, fiction\, and non-fiction 
 explores collisions between human ambition and the natural world. His late
 st book Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World is the 2024 Pulitze
 r Prize Finalist in General Nonfiction and a stunning account of a colossa
 l wildfire and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationshi
 p between fire and humankind. Through the lens of an apocalyptic conflagra
 tion—the wildfire equivalent of Hurricane Katrina—Vaillant warns that 
 the 2016 fires at Fort McMurray were not a unique event but a shocking pre
 view of what we must prepare for in a hotter\, more flammable world. In ad
 dition to winning the British Baillie Gifford Prize (“the non-fiction Bo
 oker”)\, the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize\, and the John Wesley Dafoe Book Pr
 ize\, Fire Weather was a finalist for the National Book Award\, the PEN/Jo
 hn Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction\, and Canada’s Writers’ Trus
 t Nonfiction Prize. It has been named one of the best books of 2023 by The
  New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The New Yorker\, TIME\, NPR\, Slat
 e\, and Smithsonian. The book earned Vaillant a nod as number four on MacL
 ean’s Power List for Climate in 2024.\n\nCosponsored by the Schiller Ins
 titute for Integrated Science and Society\, the University Core Curriculum
 \, and Environmental Studies.\n\nAll Lowell Humanities Series lectures are
  free and open to the public. Registration via Eventbrite is required for 
 in-person attendance.\n\nThe Lowell Humanities Series is sponsored by the 
 Lowell Institute\, Boston College's Institute for the Liberal Arts\, and t
 he Provost's Office.
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SUMMARY:John Vaillant: Fire Weather
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