Lost and Found: A Conversation with Writer Philip Connors

Earlier this year, forest-fire lookout and nonfiction writer Philip Connors came out with his secondbook, All the Wrong Places: A Life Lost and Found. It’s a beautifully wrought memoir about his brother’s suicide, which happened when Connors was only twenty-three. 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 solitud...