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TABULA RASA - JOHN MCPHEE GEBUNDEN

A literary legend's engaging review of his career  stressing the work he never completed  and
why.Over seven decades  John McPhee has set a standard for literary nonfiction. Assaying
mountain ranges  bark canoes  experimental aircraft  the Swiss Army  geophysical hot spots 
ocean shipping  shad fishing  dissident art in the Soviet Union  and an even wider variety of
other subjects  he has consistently written narrative pieces of immaculate design.In Tabula
Rasa  Volume 1  McPhee looks back at his career from the vantage point of his desk drawer 
reflecting wryly upon projects he once planned to do but never got around to-people to profile
regions he meant to portray. There are so many examples that he plans to go on writing these
vignettes  an ideal project for an old man  he says  and a reminiscent montage from a writing
life. This first volume includes  among other things  glimpses of a frosty encounter with
Thornton Wilder  interrogative dinners with Henry Luce  the allure of western Spain  criteria
in writing about science  fireworks over the East River as seen from Malcolm Forbes's yacht 
the evolving inclinations of the Tower of Pisa  the islands among the river deltas of central
California  teaching in a pandemic  and persuading The New Yorker to publish an entire book on
oranges. The result is a fresh survey of McPhee's singular planet.

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