Tabula rasa /
In a series of essays and essay fragments-- some less than one page long-- McPhee looks back at his career from the vantage point of his desk drawer, reflecting upon projects he began but never completed or published. These pieces form a "reminiscent montage" of a writing life. Touching on...
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2023-
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| Edition: | First edition |
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Table of Contents:
- Vollume 1. Trujillo
- Thornton Wilder at the century
- The moons of Methuselah
- "Hitler youth"
- The Bridges of Christian men
- The airplane that crashed in the woods
- On the campus
- The guilt of the U.S. male
- Extremadura
- Zoom Laude
- The delta islands of the Great Valley
- Time-out on the floor
- Outcrops of Washington Road
- Blind skier
- Writing about science
- Meredith Willson
- The impostor syndrome
- Sloop to Gibraltar
- The valley
- December 19, 1943
- The dutch ship tyger
- Ray brock
- Writer
- Beelining
- Walking the Province line
- The safe houses of suburbia
- Joseph Henry House
- Workouts with Princeton coaches
- The commemorations of Woodrow Wilson
- Back up the riverbank
- World premiere
- The leghorn syndrome
- North East rising sun
- Dams 2020
- Breaking away
- The eunuch of Talcott hall
- Hyperlincs, the Gettysburg addresses, or the shot heard round the web
- Not that one
- Night watchman
- George Recker and Dr. Dick
- Dinners with Henry Luce
- Bourbon and bing cherries
- Dropped antaeus
- Generation P
- The monks of pharma
- O Beautiful for stripes and stars
- Highlander
- La Torre Pendente
- Beantown
- Deep insight