Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPhee by Noel Rubinton instant download

Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPhee by Noel Rubinton instant download

An annotated guide to the work of the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, teacher, and pioneer of creative nonfiction
John McPhee has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1965 and has written more than thirty acclaimed books that began on the magazine's pages. But few readers know or fully appreciate the true breadth of his writing. Looking for a Story is a complete reader's guide to McPhee's vast published work, documenting much rarely seen or connected with McPhee, including remarkable early writing for Time magazine published without his name.
In chronicling McPhee's career where he broke ground applying devices long associated with fiction to the literature of fact, Noel Rubinton gives insights into McPhee's techniques, choice of subjects, and research methods, shedding light on how McPhee turns complicated subjects like geology into compelling stories. Beyond detailing more than seventy years of McPhee's writing, Rubinton recounts...