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McPhee describes his enduring relationships with The New Yorker and Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and recalls his early years at Time magazine. 4 is enriched by multiple diagrams and by personal anecdotes and charming reflections on the life of a writer.
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It is meant to be about as visible as someone's bones."
The result is a vivid depiction of the writing process, from reporting to drafting to revising - and revising, and revising.
In another, he discusses how to use flashback to place a bear encounter in a travel narrative while observing that "readers are not supposed to notice the structure.
In one essay, he considers the delicate art of getting sources to tell you what they might not otherwise reveal.
McPhee offers definitive guidance in the decisions regarding arrangement, diction, and tone that shape non fiction pieces, and he presents extracts from his work, subjecting them to wry scrutiny.
In a series of playful, expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he has gathered over his career and has refined while teaching at Princeton University, where he has nurtured some of the most esteemed writers of recent decades. 4 is a master class on the writer's craft.
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