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Now It's HistoryA new book on legendary writer John McPheeAs a young commuter, John McPhee would stop by an orange juice stand at New York’s Penn Station. “From late autumn and on through winter and spring,” he wrote, “I noticed a gradual deepening of the color of the expressed juice. December was pale cadmium, April marigold, and June a Persian orange.” That set him to wondering about the different varieties of the fruit. “I didn't linger over the question. I had to get to work.”After he left the staff of Time magazine for a freelance writing career, he remembered the oranges and pitched the topic to the e...2025-05-0524 min