The John McPhee Reader

The John McPhee Reader, first published in 1976, is comprised of selections from the author's first twelve books. In 1965, John McPhee published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are; a decade later, he had published eleven others. His fertility, his precision and grace as a stylist, his wit and uncanny brilliance in choosing subject matter, his crack storytelling skills have made him into one of our best writers: a journalist whom L.E. Sissman ranked with Liebling and Mencken, who Geoffrey Wolff said "is bringing his work to levels that have no measurable limit," who has been called "a master craftsman" so many times that it is pointless to number them.

from A Sense of Where You Are
from The Headmaster
from Oranges
from The Pine Barrens: "The Woods from Hog Wallow", "A Separate World", and "The Air Tune"
from A Room Full of Hovings
from Levels of the Game
from The Crofter and the Laird
from Encounters With the Archdruid
from The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed
from Pieces of the Frame: "Travels in Georgia" and "The Search for Marvin Gardens"
from The Curve of Binding Energy
from The Survival of the Bark Canoe