![]() ![]() ![]() A good deal of my apprenticeship-aside from working for newspapers-involved writing terrible short stories that no one has ever read, nor ever will. I first started writing nonfiction because I tried and failed to write quality fiction. ![]() Were you daunted when you first set out as a creative nonfiction writer? You started out as a journalist and avoided getting an MFA degree. In the Fray’s Susan Dunlap talked with Connors over email in the spring about the way his brother Dan’s death shaped the trajectory of his own life, the approach he took to writing about a taboo subject, and the comforts of solitude. It’s a beautifully wrought memoir about his brother’s suicide, which happened when Connors was only twenty-three. Earlier this year, forest-fire lookout and nonfiction writer Philip Connors came out with his second book, All the Wrong Places: A Life Lost and Found. ![]()
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