 essay in which John McPhee said he never had any confidence when he started writing a book. He also read Annie Dillard, who claimed that a writer should care so deeply for their subject that they’d write a book about it even if nobody would read it.
So why does a transplanted Angeleno care enough about the Great Lakes to spend 18 months writing a book about them?
“I come from L.A., which is basically an irrigated desert,” he said. “When I came here, I just couldn’t believe the size of the lakes. I just think it’s such an incredible gift to live by them.”
Andrew McGlashen is a second-year master’s student in environmental journalism at MSU. This is his third appearance in EJ. Contact him at email@example.com.