Draft No. 4 : On the Writing Process (Hardcover)

from

I admire John McPhee and was eager to take in his thoughts on the writing process. Many of the ruminations here ring true, for sure, but overall I experienced this book as an insider's guide to writing for the New Yorker.

from MM_Jones

Always a delight to read McPhee. From my initial exposure to his writing, I assumed he was a geologist, but actually a nonfiction writer that makes it all interesting. In this series of previously published essays he discusses what a nonfiction writer considers while writing, the unseen structure...

from figre

This is a perfectly fine book that, while containing some interesting bits and pieces, doesn't really rise above the status of anything more than just okay The purpose of the book is to tell about McPhee's writing process. It is pulled together from essays that appeared in The New Yorker and hang...

from Parthurbook

Learning from a Lifetime Tell and show - McPhee's experience on display on every page. Just the Burton and Eisenhower anecdotes are worth the entry fee.

from peterbmacd

McPhee sure knows how to compose a sentence. His advice and stories about writing are as entertaining as they are insightful.