Listen, sweet summer children. We need to talk about hubris. Specifically, the kind that convinces you to take a jaunt into the Yukon wilderness when it’s colder than an ex’s heart out there, armed with nothing but a pair of mittens and a Good Ol’ American Can-Do Attitude™. This is the exact brand of arrogance that Jack London explores in To Build a Fire, a delightful little tale about one man’s casual stroll through a subarctic hellscape. Spoiler alert: it does not end well and I spill all the deets. Act 1: The Stage Is Set (For Failure) The story
