John O'Connor

About

John O'Connor is from Kalamazoo, Michigan, the original home of Gibson guitars. His writing has appeared in Open City, Post Road, Quarterly West, the New York Times, GQ, Saveur, Men’s Journal, and the Financial Times. For two years he was a foreign correspondent for Japan’s largest daily newspaper, the Yomiuri Shimbun. He teaches journalism at Boston College.

Articles

Issue 90, Fall 2015

The Legend of Chokoloskee

So I’m down on my knees, peering into the darkness, scraping my way through snarled limbs of buttonwood and black mangrove, swatting at mosquitoes. But the foliage won’t yield.

By John O'Connor

Issue 103, Winter 2018

Mystic Chords

Link’s story, like his music, turns out to be stubbornly resistant to genre.

By John O'Connor

Web Feature

All Kinds of Mysterious Craziness

Probably most folks wouldn’t peg Kentucky as a Bigfoot hotbed. Until pretty recently, neither did Bigfooters.

By John O'Connor