On the cover of the New York Times Book Review, Garrison Keillor called the book "a ragbag of scraps" and a "powerful argument for writers' burning their papers".
But, as Steve Turner relates on the following pages, the writer's burning desire for elsewhere was extinguished in a rainstorm a short way outside New York City.
Many mythology-based shows find themselves forced to spin their wheels with "standalone" episodes that pad out the season and prevent the writers from burning through material too quickly.
The Ice Diet by health writer Pete Bee, promotes burning more calories by being less warm.
Any smoke could be used in small confines; the Greek military writer Aeneas Tacticus recommended burning wood and straw to drive out enemy sappers by the smoke.
Science's writers answer your burning questions about the virus, explaining its origins, its sudden spread, and the response of the scientific community.
His words, one writer said, were "soothing, burning, and penetrating".
I'm a writer, an artist, a burning fire, and trust me, that was no easy feat.
"Burning schools, burning markets.
From William Blake to Alasdair Gray, writers who have a burning image in their minds have sought to share it, in not just words, but pictures.
