Comments on: Reverse Engineering John McPhee http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/07/07/4736/ A blog about life, past and future. Written by DISCOVER contributing editor and columnist Carl Zimmer. Sat, 26 May 2012 01:25:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Geack http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/07/07/4736/comment-page-1/#comment-58533 Geack Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:09:34 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=4736#comment-58533 Thanks for the link to your excellent piece, and thanks even more to the link to "Atchafalaya". Really fantastic stuff, maybe more so with Katrina framing our hindsight. Thanks for the link to your excellent piece, and thanks even more to the link to “Atchafalaya”. Really fantastic stuff, maybe more so with Katrina framing our hindsight.

]]> By: Marlene Zuk http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/07/07/4736/comment-page-1/#comment-58389 Marlene Zuk Fri, 08 Jul 2011 22:09:17 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=4736#comment-58389 Really lovely, thanks for sharing your piece. I particularly liked the bit about shaving away (or not) at a piece of writing one cell phone screen at a time. And I totally agree about finding McPhee's writing inspiring. When I took a writing class way back in college, my teacher Barry Farrell was friends with McPhee and had gotten a hold of a manuscript that McPhee's revisions were written all over in longhand, and he gave us all copies. I have searched and searched for it over the years but seem to have lost it, much to my regret. I do remember that it was absolutely full of words crossed out and added in, so it was a wonderful lesson in how even, maybe especially, the truly great authors revise and revise. Did you see the interview with McPhee in the Paris Review? Readers might be interested: http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5997/the-art-of-nonfiction-no-3-john-mcphee Really lovely, thanks for sharing your piece. I particularly liked the bit about shaving away (or not) at a piece of writing one cell phone screen at a time. And I totally agree about finding McPhee’s writing inspiring. When I took a writing class way back in college, my teacher Barry Farrell was friends with McPhee and had gotten a hold of a manuscript that McPhee’s revisions were written all over in longhand, and he gave us all copies. I have searched and searched for it over the years but seem to have lost it, much to my regret. I do remember that it was absolutely full of words crossed out and added in, so it was a wonderful lesson in how even, maybe especially, the truly great authors revise and revise.

Did you see the interview with McPhee in the Paris Review? Readers might be interested:
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5997/the-art-of-nonfiction-no-3-john-mcphee

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