Doug Fine: Author, Journalist, Adventurer, Goat-Herder

Doug On The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
I was a guest on April 25 (on a show that included the great Hugh Laurie and some up-and-coming singer named Prince). Click here to watch the segment.

Doug On CNN

Farewell, My Subaru, The Short Film

Doug On The Tonight Show With Jay Leno

Doug’s Essay In the New York Times Magazine

Never one to let a Biblical Hailstorm go un-tax-deducted, my essay about the (as of publication time) latest Climate Change-induced carnage on the Funky Butte Ranch appeared in the New York Times Magazine. Meanwhile, Farewell, My Subaru is continuing to fuel the worldwide theft of waste vegetable oil from behind the planet’s Chinese restaurants. Thanks to everyone for their support of the book.

Reviews of Farewell, My Subaru

“Fine is a…storyteller in the mold of…Douglas Adams. If you’re a fan of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy-style humor — and also looking to find out how to raise your own livestock to feed your ice-cream fetish — Farewell, My Subaru may prove a vital tool.” –Washington Post

“A chuckle or a wry grin is waiting on every page, if not each paragraph. It’s the kind of humor that builds gradually, that sneaks up on you with such stealth that you hardly even realize what a good time you’re having until it’s all over. By the end of Farewell, My Subaru you can think of nothing that would seem like more fun than hanging out at Fine’s ranch, vainly striving to keep his goats from eating the rose bushes. Think James Herriot’s All Creatures Great and Small — updated as appropriate for the iPod generation.” –Salon

“Fine is an eco-hero for our time.” –Miami Herald

“The details of Doug Fine’s experiment in green living are great fun…what we are built for. It’ll make you want to move!” –Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future

“He is Bryson funny.” –Santa Cruz Sentinel

“This is Green Acres for the smart set–– a witty and educational look at sustainable living. Buy it, read it, compost it.” -–AJ Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically

“Fine survives drought, biblical floods, and UN-hating [ranchers] as he gradually becomes ’solarized’…along the way readers will root for this dry sharp wit and his rosy green dream. Fine’s funny struggle to become a better world citizen will entertain both the eco-aware, and those who doze peacefully in their home’s formaldehyde fumes.” –-Bookpage

“NPR contributor Fine’s…voice is gentle, his humor sharp, his message clear. Farewell, My Subaru…is a book that everyone needs to read. –January Magazine

“Give a man a job and a 401(k) plan, and he’ll face a possible layoff and an insecure retirement. Give a man a chicken, a goat, a garden and an apple tree, and he’ll have a full belly and a happy heart.” –Albuquerque Journal