Philip Connors

Philip Connors is a former Nation intern whose essays have appeared in n+1, The Paris Review and the London Review of Books. He is at work on a book about his time as a fire lookout, to be published by Ecco.

FictionMarch 11, 2009

A Tough Flower Girl: On Norman Maclean

In Norman Maclean’s stories, tragedy comes garlanded in a prose style nearly unsurpassed for its bright flashes of remembrance, its whispers out of time.

Philip Connors
FictionMarch 25, 2004

In America

If the words “first novel” and “arrival of a major American talent” appear on the front flap of a dust jacket, you can almost be sure that the picture on the back flap will depict some impossibly

Philip Connors
FictionSeptember 12, 2002

Not So Pretty Horses, Too

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Philip Connors

FictionMarch 11, 2009

In Norman Maclean’s stories, tragedy comes garlanded in a prose style nearly unsurpassed for its bright flashes of remembrance, its whispers out of time.

FictionMarch 25, 2004

If the words “first novel” and “arrival of a major American talent” appear on the front flap of a dust jacket, you can almost be sure that the picture on the back flap will depict some impossibly

FictionSeptember 12, 2002