Keep an eye out for Northland in paperback! Now with a slick, blue cover… I will be reading in Bar Harbor May 28 at 7pm and L.L. Bean in Freeport on June 1 at 3pm. See you there…

Join Us at a NORTHLAND Event:   Wednesday, Sept 26. 7:00 PM talk/signing MAGERS AND QUINN 3038 Hennepin Ave. S Minneapolis, MN 55408 Link: (directions) https://www.magersandquinn.com/index.php?main_page=help#maps   Thursday, September 27, 7:00 PM talk/signing ELLIOTT BAY BOOK COMPANY 1521 Tenth Avenue Seattle, WA 98122 Link: https://www.elliottbaybook.com/event/porter-fox   Friday-Sunday, September 28-30 HARBOR SPRINGS […]

Porter Fox to present NORTHLAND: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America’s Forgotten Border A free discussion and reception at Rising Tide Brewing Company in Portland  WHEN: Thursday, September 6, 6-9:00 p.m. WHERE: Rising Tide Brewing Company, 103 Fox Street, Portland Please join NRCM Rising at Rising Tide Brewing Company for a special evening with outdoor and […]

It’s been a busy month for NORTHLAND…     NPR Marketplace, author interview: https://www.marketplace.org/2018/07/05/business/big-book/america-northern-border-crossing-business   NPR Here & Now, author interview: http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/07/03/us-canada-border-northland   The New York Times Book Review, interview:   The New York Times, author op-ed   The New York Times Travel Section   Maine Public Radio, interview http://www.mainepublic.org/post/maine-author-explores-changing-american-border-canada#stream/0 […]

The first excerpts of NORTHLAND are out. See a piece from Montana’s Medicine Line in Outside Magazine here. Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America’s Forgotten Border (available for preorder now) offers searing portraits of the people and places that live on the line between the United States and Canada. Author […]

The southern border of the United States gets all the attention, but it’s barely half as long as the northern border; its story is “a tale of early mistakes, and more than two centuries of fixes.” Fox (Deep: The Story of Skiing and the Future of Snow, 2013), a Maine […]

North America was not the land of milk and honey that early explorers sought. It was a rocky, cold, foreboding obstacle blocking the way to the riches of Asia. The Vikings, Hernán Cortés, Juan de Fuca, Martin Frobisher, Sir Francis Drake, and virtually every captain dispatched across the pond by […]