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John McPhee

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How Wonderful It Is to Be So Moved: A Conversation with Sarah Krasnostein

  • Sarah Haas
  • February 28, 2022
The most truthful we can be in a factual genre is to doubt the attainability of fact at all.
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What to Read When You Want to Curl Up with a Good Book

  • The Rumpus
  • January 12, 2018
Rumpus editors share their favorite winter reads.
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What to Read When It’s Time for Sports

  • The Rumpus
  • September 22, 2017
Just a "heads up" (as they say in the sports world): this isn't your average sports list.
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The Rumpus Interview with Erik Kennedy

  • Rita Banerjee
  • February 8, 2017
Poet Erik Kennedy discusses literary community and his formative years as a young writer in New Jersey, and shares two new prose poems.
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Structure as Lightning Rod

  • Kirstin Allio
  • September 1, 2016
Writing for The Millions, M.C. Mah turns over all the cards in the deck on structure in storytelling. He gathers words of wisdom—and many metaphors—from luminaries like John McPhee, Borges,…
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“Throw Something Down Hard Enough, You Discover Its Laws”

  • Weston Cutter
  • March 1, 2016
Maybe my faith that the profoundest feeling we're offered by art that really hits us deep in is a setting free, a series of screens or horizons obliterated somehow lovingly.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Chaitali Sen

  • Swati Khurana
  • January 17, 2016
Swati Khurana talks to the author of The Pathless Sky, a love story centered around place, the state’s authority, statelessness, and geology.
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Making the Cut

  • Katie O'Brien
  • September 11, 2015
In writing, what is not said can be just as important as what is. Over at the New Yorker, John McPhee discusses the art of choosing what to include and what…
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A Sincere Mustache

  • P.E. Garcia
  • March 9, 2015
In some piece or other, early on, I said of a person I was writing about that he had a “sincere” mustache. This brought Bingham, manuscript in hand, out of…
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The Fossils of Storytelling

  • Alex Norcia
  • March 5, 2015
For the New Yorker, John McPhee writes about our dwindling frames of references: Frames of reference are like the constellation of lights, some of them blinking, on an airliner descending toward an…
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