An Hour With John McPhee
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audio
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Society & Culture
Publication Date |
Jul 07, 2021
Episode Duration |
00:49:30

John McPhee is a writer's writer. He's thought of as one of the progenitors of the New Journalism, of creative nonfiction or narrative nonfiction, along with people like Gay Talese and Tom Wolfe and Hunter S. Thompson. But his style is... quiter than those folks'. His writing is transparent. He tends to keep himself out of the narrative. He doesn't even, in fact, have an author photo.

McPhee has written for The New Yorker since 1963, and he's taught writing at Princeton University since 1975. He is the author of 32 books, including Coming Into the CountryA Sense of Where You AreOranges, and Annals of the Former World, which won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.

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  • John McPhee - Staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of 33 books; his latest are Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process and The Patch

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Colin McEnroe contributed to this show, which originally aired September 28, 2017.

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