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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Our next guest can help me fix my mixed cooking metaphors - John McPhee, the New Yorker writer of 32 books over seven decades that have helped invent a form now called creative nonfiction on ...