Tag: John McPhee

Fifty years after he published Oranges, one writer traces McPhee’s story to Florida to assess the state of American citrus.

Writing is selection. Just to start a piece of writing you have to choose one word and only one from more than a million in the language. Now keep going. What is your next word? Your next sentence, paragraph, section, chapter? Your next ball of fact. You select what goes in and you decide what […]