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…
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New Book Tour Dates
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 […]
Read MoreSeptember Readings in Maine
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 […]
Read MoreNORTHLAND in the News
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 […]
Read MoreNORTHLAND Is Released
The story of America’s forgotten border is officially out July 3. NORTHLAND was chosen as Amazon’s Book of the Month in Nonfiction, Biography and History. Get your copy here: Greenlight Bookstore, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Books-a-Million, iBookstore
Read MoreFirst NORTHLAND Excerpts Out
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 […]
Read MoreNORTHLAND Gets Starred Kirkus Review
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 […]
Read MoreOUTSIDE Review of Best New Expedition Books
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 […]
Read MoreMPR Reacts to NYTimes Cover
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news Arts & Culture A cure for politics? Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Bob Collins October 21, 2016, 1:45 PM12 Comments No pressure, Boundary Waters, but the New York Times this afternoon is telling the nation you’re the cure for the political cesspool gripping the […]
Read MoreMacDowell Art of Nonfiction Grant
Journalism Initiative Support Makes Finding the Long Arcs Possible Deep reporting in writer’s project about U.S.-Canada border is one of 15 fellowships assisted by MacDowell long-form journalism push. By Jonathan Gourlay Journalist Porter Fox arrived at The MacDowell Colony late last January armed with hundreds of stories and countless historical vignettes […]
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