words written down

This blog is all about words because they matter, they influence, they entertain and when you put them down on a page in a meaningful order, they acquire permanence. Contained here is my writing over the past 10+ years, primarily book reviews over the past ~5 years, and I also have a book review podcast, Talking Nonfiction, available on Apple or Spotify.

Friday, May 29, 2009

Randy Johnson Profile from Sports Illustrated

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Really good writing by Tom Verducci in his piece "Randy Johnson Will Grind Your Bones To Make His Bread" from the May 25 Sports ...
Wednesday, May 27, 2009

"The Longest Trip Home" by John Grogan

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Having finished "Marley & Me" (which I wrote about on this blog post ), I decided to read the subsequent John Grogan book… “T...
Monday, May 25, 2009

"Marley and Me" by John Grogan

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I recently finished reading “Marley & Me” by John Grogan and… really liked it. There’s a lot that struck me in this book so I’ll start...
Sunday, May 24, 2009

"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain

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Just finished reading "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" on my iPhone (highly recommend the "Classics" app at a cos...
Friday, May 22, 2009

Fast Company Magazine - May 2009 Issue

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Several stories of note in the May issue of Fast Company Magazine... The longest story I want to mention here is that by Garth Stein on Se...

BusinessWeek Magazine - May 25 Issue

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Some interesting pieces from the May 25 BusinessWeek issue: "Wal-Mart: Making Its Suppliers Go Green" is about the "encoura...
Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Fast Company Magazine - Feb 2009 Issue

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Granted, this is a bit out of order as I just posted on articles from the April issue of Fast Company , but I wanted to link to a copy of in...

Fast Company Magazine - Apr 2009 Issue

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Some interesting stuff from the April 2009 issue of Fast Company ... Foremost is a large piece titled "Will NPR Save the News?" ...
Sunday, May 17, 2009

Growing Old with Autism Story from Time

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Very heartfelt and thought-inspiring article from the latest issue (cover below) of Time Magazine . Written by Karl Taro Greenfeld , "G...
Saturday, May 16, 2009

Product Review Pieces from BusinessWeek

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Below are four different product review type articles from BusinessWeek over the last few months. They come from four different issues and...
Friday, May 15, 2009

Federer vs Nadal Piece from Sports Illustrated

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Interesting story from the latest issue of Sports Illustrated (cover below) titled "The Takedown" on the Roger Federer - Rafael ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Esquire Magazine - June issue

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As is almost always the case, there was some excellent writing from the latest issue of Esquire . Fortunately, the best was available on htt...

Time Magazine - Elizabeth Edwards Excerpt & Other Book Pieces

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From three different Time Magazine issues are taken three different pieces that all fall in what I'll so eloquently call the "book...

Rescue Shuttle Article from CNN

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Interesting article from www.cnn.com titled "Astronauts ready for rescue mission they hope never happens" about the contingencie...
Saturday, May 09, 2009

"Eclipse" by Stephenie Meyer

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Took me a while to slog through all of it, but I just finished "Eclipse" by Stephenie Meyer . After really liking "Twilight...
Sunday, May 03, 2009

Joe Klein Piece on Obama's First 100 Days

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Really insightful cover story from Joe Klein in the May 4 issue of Time Magazine . The title "Joe Klein on the President's Impress...
Thursday, April 30, 2009

Time Magazine - Apr 27 Issue

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Some really interesting stuff from the Apr 27 issue of Time Magazine . "The Great Recession: America Becomes Thrift Nation" is th...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Health 2.0: Patients as Partners Article from BusinessWeek

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Very interesting article titled "Heath 2.0: Patients as Partners" from the Dec 15 2008 issue of BusinessWeek . This piece relates...

"What Would Google Do?" by Jeff Jarvis

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I've already done two different blog posts about the Jeff Jarvis book "What Would Google Do?" , but now that I've actuall...
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Fred Wilson Venture Capitalist Website & Time Internet Business Article

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I came mention of venture capitalist Fred Wilson and his blog http://www.avc.com/ in the Jeff Jarvis book "What Would Google Do?...
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