Burn Pit

2011, 32 pages, by Mary Armstrong Series Editors: Peggy Ellsberg, Barbara Fischer and Margo Taft Stever

“Honest, direct, impeccably crafted, Mary Armstrong’s Burn Pit offers a ground-level look at the business of oil, her words as muscular—and even, sometimes, lyrical—as the roughnecks and roustabouts who make the wells pump and the poisoned black gold flow.”—Charles Harper Webb