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Jan 29, 2025 | 
publishersweekly.com | John Maher |John McPhee
Farrar, Straus and Giroux has launched a new science imprint, Quanta Books, in partnership with the Simons Foundation, where the imprint is an editorially independent subsidiary.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
newyorker.com | John McPhee
This is the fifth article in the “Tabula Rasa” series. Read Volumes One, Two, Three, and Four. “Bleb” is worth eight points in Scrabble. Thought you might like to know. I have known the word since Wednesday, June 11, 1958, when I learned it from a company physician at Time Incorporated, in Rockefeller Center. He said I should have been hospitalized four days ago, but there was nothing much to do about it now, go back to work.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
bobmorris.biz | John McPhee
Focus like that is an obvious asset in the central vision of a basketball player, and so is peripheral vision, which adds so much to court sense. When Bill was in high school, in Crystal City, Missouri, he would walk down the streets with blinders on his eyes to see if he could read the signs in shopwindows on either side. Nonsense? Court sense.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
bobmorris.biz | John McPhee
(This is the first part of a two-part series. Read the second part.)On the other side of the net, the serve hits the grass and, taking off in a fast skid, is intercepted by the backhand of Clark Graebner. Graebner has a plan for this match. He does not intend to “hit out” much. Even if he sees the moon, he may decide not to shoot it. He will, in his words, “play the ball in the court and make Arthur play it, because Arthur blows his percentages by always trying a difficult or acute shot.
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Aug 17, 2024 | 
washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | John McPhee
As I contemplate my assignment to write a review of John McPhee’s newest book, I am faced with a tabula rasa, a blank slate. How am I supposed to look critically at the work of this legend, author of dozens of books and hundreds of articles, winner of top awards, teacher and mentor to countless students? I freeze. The cursor and empty computer screen taunt. Deep breath. McPhee often faces a tabula rasa, too. In fact, he gave this, his 33rd book, that very title.
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Jul 27, 2024 | 
santafenewmexican.com | John McPhee
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Jun 8, 2024 | 
audiofilemagazine.com | John McPhee
Happily, another of John McPhee’s classics has been brought to life with this finely narrated audiobook. Golden Voice narrator Edoardo Ballerini performs the work with care for the author’s eloquent descriptions of Deerfield, Massachusetts, as it evolves over the twentieth century—as does its legendary headmaster, Frank L. Boyden, who took over in 1902 and stayed in charge for 66 years.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
santafenewmexican.com | John McPhee
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May 13, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | John McPhee
This is the fourth article in the “Tabula Rasa” series. Read Volumes One, Two, and Three. In a cogent sense, I have spent, at this writing, about eighty-eight years preparing for Wordle. I work with words, I am paid by the word, I majored in English, and today I major in Wordle. On the remote chance that someone in the English-speaking world who is unfamiliar with Wordle ever happens upon this essay, I should explain that Wordle is a simple, straightforward online game.
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May 3, 2024 | 
readersblock.substack.com | Caroline O'Donoghue |John Marrs |John McPhee |Jeff Guinn
Thanks for reading ReadersBlock! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. by Caroline O'Donoghue Read it if you’re into: Contemporary dramas, Irish culture, modern loveThis contemporary work of fiction revolves around Rachel and James, two college-aged friends who meet at a bookstore in Cork and bond instantaneously. Their union is tested when Dr. Fred Byrne, Rachel’s married professor, enters the picture.
