Thursday, October 27, 2011

Rin Tin Tin by Susan Orlean

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Finished reading the other day Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean and found it to be an interesting book. Orlean is also...
Saturday, October 22, 2011

Brandon Sneed Writing

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Having followed him on twitter for a while now, I've been seeing more and more interesting content lately from freelance (aren't we ...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Luke Dittrich on the Joplin Tornado & Other Esquire Pieces

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Remarkable feature on the Joplin Tornado in the October 2011 issue of Esquire (which includes an interesting, but not linked to online cover...
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

GQ October 2011 Issue - Devin Friedman on Hip Hop Artist Rick Ross & Other Features

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One tremendous and several other solid as well features from the latest issue of GQ Magazine . Piece that stood out the most was that on hi...
Thursday, October 13, 2011

"Life Itself" by Roger Ebert

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Just finished reading Life Itself by Roger Ebert and found it to be a very interesting, if somewhat peculiar memoir. What struck me as pec...
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Steve Jobs Writing... On & By Him

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There's been some extremely solid writing on Steve Jobs published or brought back up with his passing last week. I'm sure more grea...

Working... & Writing on Michael Lewis Working

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Having previously done a number of posts on work (the most involved probably being Working on the Railroad... with help from Robert Fulghum ...
Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Cover Story on Amazon... & Other Businessweek Pieces

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Excellent cover story from the Oct 3 issue of Businessweek . Amazon , the Company That Ate the World is written by Brad Stone and details ...

Money and Related to $ Writing from Time

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Some solid writing on money, the economy and jobs in Time lately... particularly in the recent Special Money Issue . Leading off the sectio...
Saturday, October 01, 2011

Sports Illustrated Pieces: on Walter Payton, Gary Patterson & the Philadelphia Phillies

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There's been a few different feature stories from Sport Illustrated lately with really solid writing on interesting topics. For the Sep...

Moneyball Movie & Writing On It

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In what would seem to be a highly improbable trifecta, the Brad Pitt vehicle Moneyball was an excellent movie loosely based on a great boo...
Thursday, September 29, 2011

Game 162 of the MLB 2011 Season & Great Writing on the Night

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Stunning, crazy, epic, redonkulous ... all words that apply to last night's events in the final game of the MLB regular season. I suppos...
Sunday, September 25, 2011

"Those Guys Have All the Fun" by James Andrew Miller & Tom Shales

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Just finished reading Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales . It did drag on at time...
Sunday, September 18, 2011

Tennis Writing on Roger Federer

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Lately have come across some very interesting writing on tennis star Roger Federer . The work is from a variety of different sources over a ...
Wednesday, September 14, 2011

9/11 10th Anniversary Writing

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Really remarkable commemorative issue of Time Magazine this past week. The special edition was published without advertising and much o...
Monday, September 12, 2011

"The Greater Journey" by David McCullough

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Just finished reading The Greater Journey by David McCullough ... didn't finish the book, just finished reading close to half-way throu...
Thursday, September 08, 2011

Inc. Magazine Speaker Event

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Recently attended a speaker panel put on by Inc. Magazine here in San Jose and found it to be pretty thought provoking. The event was title...
Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Esquire Writing - Scott Raab on WTC Memorial & C.J. Chivers "What I've Learned" Feature

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September 2011 issue of Esquire contained exceptional writing by Scott Raab ... as well as an interesting one page piece of musings from C....

Tommy Tomlinson Writing - for ESPN, GoodCall and Personal Blog

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In a veritable onslaught of Tommy Tomlinson content, today there was a piece of his posted at ESPN.com and interview with him on a new spor...
Sunday, September 04, 2011

Time Magazine Writing - Joe Klein on Veterans, Mehmet Oz on food & Barton Gellman on Dick Cheney

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Some solid pieces from Time lately... two of them cover stories and another within the latest issue (and all of them requiring a magazine su...