Built to Burn

Tales of the Desert Carnies of Burning Man

Tony Coyote Perez, Dominic Da Tinio, Stuart Mangrum

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Burning Man Project
01 July 2020

History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Art & design styles: from c 1960; Autobiography: general; Memoirs; Alternative lifestyles

"BUILT TO BURN tells the story of how Tony, a San Francisco blues musician, became Coyote, builder of Burning Man's legendary city in the desert, and how he came to lead a ragtag band of circus runaways, freaks and geeks that would become its Department of Public Works.

In 1996, Tony was making a decent living as a musician, but his creative juices had run dry: one night onstage, he realized he'd just played an entire sax solo while thinking about his laundry. So when a wild-at-heart friend invites him to something called ""Burning Man,"" he grabs his backpack and hops in the car, unaware that the experience ahead will not only turn him inside out, but alter the course of his life.

An essential Burning Man origin story, BUILT TO BURN chronicles the wild uncertainty and creative chaos of the early days in the desert, when the event's future was under constant threat and the organizers were making everything up as they went along. It's a tale of struggle and survival, of friends made and friends lost, as Coyote and his misfit crew battle raging storms, crazed livestock, angry townsfolk and each other, locking horns with the real-life cowboys, Indians, outlaws and outcasts of Nevada's high desert frontier. Told with wry humor and a bit of cowboy philosophy, BUILT TO BURN invites the reader to experience Burning Man as it was before it got civilized, when it was as wild and untamed as anything out of the Old West."

By: Tony Coyote Perez
Cover design or artwork by: Dominic Da Tinio
Edited by: Stuart Mangrum
Imprint: Burning Man Project
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 449g
ISBN: 9781734965902
ISBN 10: 1734965908
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 01 July 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Tony ""Coyote"" Perez came to San Francisco from Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1979, and forged a living as a singer and sax player for well over a decade before he started building the cities of Burning Man in 1996. He soon became the City Superintendent of Black Rock City (BRC), supervising the production of the city infrastructure, and was part of the founding management of its Department of Public Works. Long considered the ""Bard of the Desert,"" he works year 'round for Burning Man, and was the first recipient of its Storytelling Fellowship for his many tales of the history and the inner workings of the event and its culture. He resides in San Francisco with his wife and twin sons."