Liam Harrison
Liam Harrison is a writer and lecturer in creative writing at the University of the West of England; his essay "When the Fire Comes" appears in The Dublin Review No. 102 (Spring 2026).
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When the Fire Comes The summer the horse fell, I was working on a ranch that lay high up a canyon in the Santa Lucia mountains along Big Sur, several miles south of Monterey.
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I had read John Steinbeck's East of Eden and seen the film adaptation, and I wanted to be James Dean.
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Or I had read about Levin working in the fields in Anna Karenina, cosplaying as a serf, and decided to embark on my own kind of agricultural cosplay.
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Or I wanted to go to the US, and California was one of the states I had heard of.
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I got a flight to San Francisco, took a train from Oakland to Salinas, then a bus to Monterey, and carried on southward.