About+McPhee

**The Journalism of John McPhee ** Winter Term 2010
 * English 2773 **

**Some writing on McPhee **

These are selected from a much more exhaustive [|list of writing about McPhee] that's available on the course Web site. Here, I've included only the ones I've judged to be more considerable, substantial, or scholarly -- and thus worth reading and reporting on. Some items, which the library doesn't own, are available at the Reserve Desk, as originals or photocopies. These are marked with an @ sign at the margin. To locate them, check the library's reserve list for this course to see which are on reserve. Others can be found through the library's periodical collections and online indices.

The Weltzien & Maher book, //Coming Into McPhee Country, // which is a collection of articles on McPhee, is on two-hour reserve; any of the articles can probably be read in that time, but I expect most people will take the book out and photocopy one (if you do that, return it quickly, so that if someone else is looking for it she can find it). All the others are on two-day reserve.

 @Bailey, Thomas C. "John McPhee: The Making of a Meta-Naturalist." //Earthly Words: Essays on Contemporary American Nature and Environmental Writers. // Ed. John Cooley. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1994. Pp. 195-213. **Described by Deanna Gamble**

Berkes, Howard. "A Sense of Where John McPhee Is." National Public Radio Web Site. (24 June 2006). Available on line: <[]> **Described by Mackenzie Heckbert** [Added by Mackenzie Heckbert] 

@Bonney, William. "John McPhee's //Coming into the Country //: The Frontier as Commodity." //Isle: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment // <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">1:1 (Spring, 1993), 81 - 95. **Described by Darcy Cameron**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">

@Carstarphen, Meta G. "Traveling in Social Spaces: John McPhee's Dichotomies in //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Levels of the Game // <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">and 'In Search of Marvin Gardens'." In //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Coming Into McPhee Country: John McPhee and the Art of Literary Nonfiction //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">. Ed. O. Alan Weltzien and Susan N. Maher. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2003. 245-261.

@Chapman, David W. "Forming and Meaning: Writing the Counterpoint Essay." //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory // <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">11:1 (Winter 1991), 73 81. **Described by Andréa Peters**

Dreifus, Claudia. "A Writer Takes a Turn Reading Sermons in Stone." //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">New York Times // <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">148: 51344 (17 November 1998): F5. **Described by Jessica Holt**

Giddens, Elizabeth. "An Epistemic Case Study: Identification and Attitude Change in John McPhee's //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Coming into the Country //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">." //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Rhetoric Review // <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">11:2 (Spring 1993): 378-99. **Described by Courtney Fox**

@Haynes, Jared. "'The Size and Shape of the Canvas:' An Interview with John McPhee." //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Writing on the Edge // <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">5:2 (Spring 1994): 109-25. Repr. (Abridged) in @ //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Coming Into McPhee Country: John McPhee and the Art of Literary Nonfiction //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">. Ed. O. Alan Weltzien and Susan N. Maher. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2003. 54-78. **Described by Devika Dadhe**

@Howarth, William L." Introducing John McPhee." In //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Coming Into McPhee Country: John McPhee and the Art of Literary Nonfiction //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">. Ed. O. Alan Weltzien and Susan N. Maher. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2003. 19-53. **Described by Andrew Bartlett**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">

@Howarth, William L." Introduction." //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The John McPhee Reader //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">. Ed. William L. Howarth. New York: Random House, 1977. vii-xxiii. **Described by Evan Bower**

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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">@Humphrey, Theodore C. "'In a Lifetime of Descending Rivers': The Art and Argument of John McPhee's 'River Essays'." In //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Coming Into McPhee Country: John McPhee and the Art of Literary Nonfiction //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">. Ed. O. Alan Weltzien and Susan N. Maher. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2003. 185-208. **Described by Jessica Marr** ===== <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> @Humphrey, Theodore C. "John McPhee's Spiritual Journeys: The Authenticating Eye." In Kristi Siegel, ed. and intro., //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Issues in Travel Writing: Empire, Spectacle, and Displacement //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">. New York: Peter Lang, 2002. 165-78. **Described by Garrett Derrah**

@Lounsberry, Barbara. "John McPhee's Levels of the Earth." In //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The Art of Fact: Contemporary Artists of Nonfiction //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">. New York: Greenwood, 1990. 65-106

@Lounsberry, Barbara. "Pieces and the Frame: McPhee and Portraiture." In //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Coming Into McPhee Country: John McPhee and the Art of Literary Nonfiction //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">. Ed. O. Alan Weltzien and Susan N. Maher. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2003. 79-104. **Described by Emma Smith**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">

@Maher, Susan Naramore. "Deep Time, Human Time, and the Western Quest: John McPhee's Rising from the Plains." //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">South Dakota Review // <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">30:1 (Spring, 1992), 36-45.

@Maher, Susan Naramore. "'Pentimento in the Hide': Cracking Code with John McPhee." In //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Coming Into McPhee Country: John McPhee and the Art of Literary Nonfiction //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">. Ed. O. Alan Weltzien and Susan N. Maher. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2003. 301-319. **Described by Kayla Lawrence** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">

Moore, Leslie S. "The Architectonics of the Personal Essay." //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">English Journal // <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">81:6 (October 1992): 18-25. **Described by Allyson Gorham** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> @Pearson, Michael. "In the American Grain: John McPhee's //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Coming Into the Country //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">." In //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Coming Into McPhee Country: John McPhee and the Art of Literary Nonfiction //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">. Ed. O. Alan Weltzien and Susan N. Maher. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2003. 145-161.

@Pearson, Michael. //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">John McPhee //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1997.

Pearson, Michael. "Profile: John McPhee." //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Creative Nonfiction // <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">1:1 (1993), 76-87. @Philippon, Daniel J. "'Academic Air': Teaching //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The Control of Nature //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">." In //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Coming into McPhee Country: John McPhee and the Art of Literary Nonfiction //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">. Ed. O. Alan Weltzien and Susan N. Maher. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2003. 282-300.

@Remnick, David. "Introduction." //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The Second John McPhee Reader //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">. Ed. Patricia Strachan and David Remnick. New York: The Noonday Press / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996. vii-xvii. **​****Described by Kevin Williams**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">@Roundy, Jack. "Crafting Fact: Formal Devices in the Prose of John McPhee." //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Literary Nonfiction: Theory, Criticism, Pedagogy //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">, ed Chris Anderson. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1989. 70-92.

@Sims, Norman. "'Essence of Writer': John McPhee's Early Training." In //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Coming into McPhee Country: John McPhee and the Art of Literary Nonfiction //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">. Ed. O. Alan Weltzien and Susan N. Maher. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2003. 105-119. **Described by Acey Outerbridge**

@Smith, Kathy. "John McPhee Balances the Act." In //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Coming into McPhee Country: John McPhee and the Art of Literary Nonfiction //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">. Ed. O. Alan Weltzien and Susan N. Maher. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2003. 262-281. **Described by Joanne Goodall**

@Stevens, Barbara. "John McPhee's Annals of the Former World: Geology, Culture, and a Fountain of Metaphor." In //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Coming into McPhee Country: John McPhee and the Art of Literary Nonfiction //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">. Ed. O. Alan Weltzien and Susan N. Maher. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2003. 226-241.

Stull, James. "Self and the Performance of Others: The Pastoral Vision of John McPhee." //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">North Dakota Quarterly // <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">59:3 (Summer 1991), 182-200. **Described by Joline Gaudet**

Terrie, Philip G. "River of Paradox: John McPhee's 'The Encircled River'." //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Western American Literature // <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">23:1 (May 1988), 3-15.. **Described by Katelyn Mokler**

Tilden, Norma. "Stratigraphies: Writing a Suspect Terrain." //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Biography // <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">25:1 (Winter 2000), 25-45. **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Described by Katelyn Clews​ **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">

@Turner, Brian. "Giving Good Reasons: Environmental Appeals in the Nonfiction of John McPhee." //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Rhetoric Review // <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">13:1 (Fall 1994):164-82. Repr. in //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Coming Into McPhee Country: John McPhee and the Art of Literary Nonfiction //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">. Ed. O. Alan Weltzien and Susan N. Maher. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2003. 162-184. **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Described by Brittany Douthwright​ **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">

@Van Noy, Rick. "A Plate Tectonics of Language: Geology as Vernacular Science." In //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Coming into McPhee Country: John McPhee and the Art of Literary Nonfiction //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">. Ed. O. Alan Weltzien and Susan N. Maher. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2003. 209-225.

@Vicondoa, Brenda. "All Over the Road with John McPhee." In Stephen Tchudi, ed. and intro. //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Western Technological Landscapes //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">. Reno, NV: Nevada Humanities Committee, 1998. 73-86. **Described by Jody McIntyre**

Vipond, Douglas, and Russell A. Hunt. "The Strange Case of the Queen-Post Truss: John McPhee on Writing and Reading." //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">College Composition and Communication // <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">42:2 (May 1991): 200-10. **Described by Shannon Billings**

Weber, Ronald. "Letting Subjects Grow." In //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The Literature of Fact: Literary Nonfiction in American Writing //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1980. 111-122. **Described by Adam Hodnett** & **Alex Nowicki** (Forgot to claim it when I got borrowed it from the library)

@Weltzien, O. Alan. "John McPhee and the Question of Environmental Advocacy." In //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Coming into McPhee Country: John McPhee and the Art of Literary Nonfiction //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">. Ed. O. Alan Weltzien and Susan N. Maher. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2003. 123-144. **Described by Amy Lawson** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">

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