Reviews Lazarus of the Picnic Table: On John McPhee’s ‘Draft No. 4’ Stephen Phillips - 10.26.2017 Writing remains an anguished, halting process—confidence an account that is zeroed out each time McPhee files a piece. Stephen Phillips - 10.26.2017
Reviews He Doesn’t Wear a Game Face: On David Foster Wallace’s ‘String Theory’ Stephen Phillips - 5.17.2016 | 5 The sense one gets reading these pieces is of a discovery process, the author stumbling sentence-by-sentence toward understanding -- a task to which he wholly devotes his profane, fucked-up, intellectually omnivorous self. Stephen Phillips - 5.17.2016 | 5