Matthew Wolfe

My book, "Fires In The Night: The Earth Liberation Front, The FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabotage," is published today! And I have SO many people to thank. Foremost among them is my brilliant and impossibly hard-working editor, @alorentzen, who midwifed this into existence with soft, dextrous hands. Everyone @VikingBooks has been amazing. I'm blessed to have Alexis Nowicki @flyschola1 as my publicist, who has reached out to basically every community radio station in the PNW asking if they wanted to do an interview. This book began life as an article in the New York Times Magazine where @willystaley kept it alive through a pandemic and a constantly shifting political climate. Most of all, I'm grateful to the ELF defendants who trusted me with such a sensitive story, one that a lot of journalists had gotten wrong. I'm honored that they chose to defy all good sense and speak with me.

@sethharpesq Oddly, a Fort Benning connection. Many of those Eugene arson-era activists were known to Food Not Lawns, disparaging our “soft” alternative to confrontational direct action. They went to jail; we went on to define a visionary edgeline of the global, regenerative design movement.