Book review: The Patch, by John McPhee
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The great American writer John McPhee is approaching his 88th birthday, yet later this year, as per usual, he is scheduled to teach his long-running Creative Non-Fiction course at Princeton. On Mondays during the spring term, from 1:30pm to 4:20pm, he will tutor 16 lucky students in the art that he has spent much of his life trying to perfect. Alumni of the course include David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Lenin’s Tomb; Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation; and not one but two former managing editors of Time magazine, Richard Stengel and Jim Kelly.