What do you do when your writing career lasts seven decades but you haven’t said everything you once thought about saying? If you’re John McPhee, you crack open your notebooks and give fans a taste of ...
In “Royal Wedding,” a charming MGM musical from 1951, Fred Astaire sings and tap dances up the wall, across the ceiling and down another wall of his ocean liner stateroom. Astaire performs with an ...
John McPhee, who turned 92 in March, would like to keep at it for a while — the writing, and the breathing. In his lively new collection, “Tabula Rasa,” the very longtime, very long-form journalist ...
Walk around a giant globe in the lobby of Princeton University’s geosciences building, Guyot Hall, and ascend an elevator to the fourth floor. Then head past some rocks–from Italy, British Columbia, ...
In his newest (after Annals), McPhee leads readers out to the river—pole and lures in hand—to angle for American shad. McPhee knows where the fish are running, so ...
The writer John McPhee is a pioneer in the field of narrative nonfiction. At age 88, he has 30 books behind him, deeply reported works about everything from oranges to birch bark canoes. McPhee also ...
“The Patch” by John McPhee; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 256 pages Eighty-seven and 33. That's the age of John McPhee and the number of books he's written, counting his latest, “The Patch.” One could ...
Tabula Rasa: Volume 1; By John McPhee; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 192 pp., $28.00 John McPhee, one of the demigods of postwar American nonfiction, is 92 years old. He knows that his self-reckoning can ...
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