A Tough Flower Girl: On Norman Maclean 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.
Mar 11, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Philip Connors
In America 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 depic...
Mar 25, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Philip Connors
Not So Pretty Horses, Too Not So Pretty Horses, Too
William Eastlake once gave William Kittredge a piece of advice about writing as a Westerner. Never allow a publisher to put a picture of a horse on the cover of your novel: "Th...
Sep 12, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Philip Connors