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.

Fiction March 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
Fiction March 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
Fiction September 12, 2002

Not So Pretty Horses, Too

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Philip Connors

Fiction March 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.

Fiction March 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

Fiction September 12, 2002