The Strange Case of the Queen-Post Truss: John McPhee on Writing and Reading

Presents a discourse-based interview with John McPhee focusing attention on particular choices McPhee makes. Notes that probes (statements about McPhee texts by other readers) led to a more general discussion of the writer-reader relationship. Discusses how these two methods together afford an illum...

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Interviews
Journalism
Literature
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Old growth forests
Reading Processes
Reading Writing Relationship
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Writers
Writing
Writing (Composition)
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