Word: mcphee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Next to blabbing of his amours, the most heinous offense a gentleman may commit is to divulge the name and whereabouts of that movable mecca, the small, inexpensive, discrete, family owned restaurant with a menu of rare enticements and threefork ambience. The temptation to tell can be strong. John McPhee, 48, author of the bestselling portrait of Alaska, Coming into the Country, and other books, not only is a gentleman but a gourmet and a cook; he is also a compulsive describer. He compromised. In the Feb. 19 New Yorker, McPhee devoted a 25,000-word profile to his favorite...
...McPhee said he tries to escape from conventional journalistic approaches, the "chronological" accounting of his experiences and the lives of others. One of his biographical pieces used "thematic sketches," dealing with different recurring patterns in the subject's life, he said...
Howarth said McPhee approaches his readers completely differently from Thoreau, who possessed "a lot of contempt for his audience" and "a fear...
...Readers are the real creators," McPhee said, because they have to create ideas and images out of the simple words an author puts down on paper...
...McPhee's latest book, "Coming into the Country," deals with the frontier in Alaska...