Is there a word for the nonfiction style shared by McPhee, Evan S. Connell, and John Thorne, or am I just reaching for “good”?
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He is definitely good. I was reading Atchafalaya in January and beginning to feel that I could think like an immortal river. But what about this extract or McPhee more generally would you say is *shockingly* good?
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like just now I opened up a recent geology paper and I could read it reasonably well just from his bookhttps://twitter.com/literalbanana/status/1110884577843634178 …
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I first read your tweet as "science fiction writer" and I began to think the banana was into some excessively hard science fiction.
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ahahaha the hardest!
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so evocative maybe its the weed
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he's still good sober!!
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Reading "uncommon carriers" now, vg Thanks for rec
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I got his book on writing and I’m putting off reading it
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read several of his books in my youth. time for reread
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he just slowly relentlessly builds up knowledge & context like you’re climbing a mountain toward a sudden world-spanning vista
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