Is McPhee still on the staff? Not saying he's not, but I would have put him in the category of Calvin Trillin.
I really must be losing it. I'm very far behind, but when each issue arrives, I look over the TOC and mark articles I want to read when I get to that issue. I thought I saw McPhee's by-line in one of the issues I haven't yet read, but I just searched through all the issues I have on hand, including two already in the recycle bag, and I can't find it.
Anyway, apparently McPhee is still with us.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McPheeAnd that author whose name I can't remember? I still haven't remembered it. It's one of those things that usually come to me when I'm not thinking about it.
I think her first name is Margaret, but maybe I'm imaging her--like the McPhee article.
I always associate McPhee with an article published in TNY decades ago under the heading "Annals of the Former World." I had no idea he wrote five books about that. Unless I'm imagining that article, too.
On the other hand, the Wikipedia article about him contains this sentence:
"Many of his 31 books include material originally written for The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965."
I definitely remember the article about Bill Bradley, who went on the play basketball professionally and eventually became a U.S. Senator from New Jersey.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Bradley
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