Mark Phillips, retired tutor and teacher with the SBU Higher Education Opportunity Program, had three essays and a book review published this spring and summer. In addition, his book “My Father’s Cabin” was reviewed in a magazine and an interview with him appeared in a different magazine. (Links are provide below.)

One of his essays appeared in the summer print and online issue of The American Scholar, a quarterly magazine published by the Phi Beta Kappa Society for a general readership. His “A Splendor Wild and Terrifying” considers what he learned — and unlearned — when lost in a 6-million-acre forest. Read the essay. 

A short essay by Phillips was published in the September print and online issue of Commonweal, a bimonthly magazine of religion, politics and culture. In “After the Accident,” he reflects on a car collision he was in as a child, and especially on his father’s treatment of the intoxicated driver who caused the accident. Read the essay. 

Another of his short essays was published in the May-June print and online issue of Adirondack Life, a bimonthly regional magazine. His “Music Lessons” is about how we compose our personal stories to the rhythms of nature. Read the essay. 

His 2001memoir, “My Father’s Cabin,” which was reissued this spring by Arcade, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, was reviewed in an on online edition of Notre Dame Magazine. Read the review. The magazine also reposted Phillips’s 2011 review of Tove Jansson’s novel “The Summer Book.” Read the review. (A movie based loosely on the novel was released in the U.S. on Sept. 15.)

Additionally, Phillips was featured in an interview in Off the Shelf, a quarterly review of publications by independent presses. Read the interview.