Deschutes Public Library

Tabula rasa, John McPhee, Volume 1

eng

autobiography

no index present

non fiction

Tabula rasa

1389571508

John McPhee

Looking back at his career from the vantage point of his desk drawer, and reflecting on projects he never got around to - people to profile, regions he meant to portray, a literary legend presents a collection of vignettes and a "reminiscent montage" from a writing life

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