Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process

John McPhee ’53 digs deep into his decades-long career as journalist to share his expertise in Draft No. 4 (Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux) — part do-it-yourself manual part memoir. Drawing upon anecdotes from his decades as a New Yorker writer, he discusses past interviews, past editors, tools of the trade, and more, imparting a lifetime’s worth of wisdom not as a lesson, but, fittingly, as a story.