John McPhee, who turned 92 in March ... It is telling that McPhee’s random exercise in notebook-emptying proves a more pleasant read than most writers’ fully formed projects.

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 ...

Writer John McPhee has tackled wide variety of topics, from oranges to the geological history of North America. NPR's Scott Simon talks with McPhee about his latest book, "Tabula Rasa." Great ...

John McPhee, who turned 92 in March ... It is telling that McPhee’s random exercise in notebook-emptying proves a more pleasant read than most writers’ fully formed projects. That pleasure, as it ...

John McPhee, who turned 92 in March ... It is telling that McPhee’s random exercise in notebook-emptying proves a more pleasant read than most writers’ fully formed projects.