![]() ![]() ![]() For the n+1 essay, I went back over years of notebooks and compiled every single entry that dealt with my brother’s death and my feelings about it. This was easier, I think, although in both cases I was dealing with an experience very dear to my heart. I wonder if writing Fire Season was as complicated and emotional for you in its own way as telling - in an also beautiful, but wrenching, n+1 essay - the story of your brother’s suicide. Head over there for the main event - and then, if you’re curious, some outtakes from our conversation are below. I talk with him today at The Paris Review Daily. He’s a very direct writer, and very honest, and free of vanity.” He’s also the kind of writer who forces himself, at every turn, to confront the possibility of failure, and as a result his writing is lean and clean and distinctive: unpretentiously learned, wildly evocative, and often very funny (though not all his jokes go over so well in these parts). In the intervening years, he’s written some magnificent essays, and now he’s published the book I’ve been waiting for, Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout.Īs his friend Lorin Stein, editor of The Paris Review, recently told the Observer, “Phil only writes about things that are actually of interest, of urgent interest. ![]() Most of us who threaten to flee the city for a shack in the wilderness don’t get any further than making terrariums and insufferably holding forth in bars, but eight years ago Philip Connors actually quit his job at the Wall Street Journal for a fire lookout post in New Mexico. ![]()
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