Friday, April 20, 2012

"The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

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Finished a few days ago reading The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and felt it a pretty remarkable book. It's a hard one to ca...

"Maphead" by Ken Jennings

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I recently finished Maphead by Ken Jennings (best known for his exploits on the TV game show Jeopardy! ) and enjoyed the book quite a bit....
Thursday, April 19, 2012

Writers on Writing - Chris Jones, Gene Weingarten & Rick Cleveland

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There's been a few pieces I've seen recently that dealt with writers and writers on writing... and an additional thing going on with...
Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Fast Company April Issue: Features on Facebook, Tesla Motors & MLB Advanced Media

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The April issue of Fast Company had three different features with solid writing on some tremendously interesting companies. The cover story...
Thursday, April 12, 2012

How much is too much? Limits of fandom & Pieces by Patrick Hruby and Tim Brown

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There's a topic I've been thinking about lately that's become more front of mind with two different controversies in the sports ...

Outside Magazine Pieces - Mark Sundeen on Noah Pippen / Peter Stark on living abroad / Mark Jenkins on wilderness first aid / "To the Arctic" IMAX

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There were a few pieces of note from the May issue of Outside Magazine ... including a tremendously good 10,000 word feature on a Marine who...
Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Fast Company Mar 2012 "50 Most Innovative Companies" Issue

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There was a bunch of interesting content from the March edition of Fast Company Magazine . It was the annual "50 Most Innovative Compan...
Monday, April 09, 2012

Chris Sacca Interview with Kevin Rose

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It's taken me forever and a day to do this post on it, but I came across a while back a terribly compelling (at least for those people i...
Friday, April 06, 2012

GQ April 2012 Issue: Pitbull / Dave Franco / Brunello Cucinelli styling Michael Paterniti

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There were a few interesting pieces from the latest issue of GQ Magazine ... with one unfortunately not currently available online. One of...
Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Writing on Fathers & Sons - from Thompson, Jones and McCann

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Three pieces of writing I've read lately remind me of why I love words and their ability to express ideas of import. Each story traffics...

The Passing of Caballo Blanco (Micah True)

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It was a sad story I came across recently in the form of a Christopher McDougall tweet about his friend Caballo Blanco (also known as Mica...
Monday, April 02, 2012

Time Magazine Pieces: Future of Oil / Kony 2012 / Change.org / FanFiction / Draw Something

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I've already just linked to a few Time Magazine pieces , but there's been a number of other recent Time stories of interest to note...

Trayvon Martin / "Stand Your Ground" Pieces - for Time Magazine, Miami Herald & Tampa Bay Times

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Over the past few weeks I've come across some very well written pieces on the shooting death of Trayvon Martin . The writing has been fo...
Friday, March 30, 2012

"Out of My League" by Dirk Hayhurst

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I finished a few days ago reading Out of My League by former MLB pitcher Dirk Hayhurst and thought it pretty compelling. The book follows ...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Words Written Down Book Process

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Now that I've actually finished writing and publishing the thing , it seems high time to note the process I went through with the book. ...
Monday, March 26, 2012

Words Written Down Book

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Yep, I wrote a book. It can be found via both the Amazon & Scribd links below... with Scribd providing the ability to download a PDF v...
Thursday, March 22, 2012

Career change pieces: on writers James Erwin & Kevin Van Valkenburg / football coach Joe Moglia

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I've come across a number of pieces over the last few weeks with each interesting and all involving career changes. Longest of the piece...
Saturday, March 17, 2012

Writing of Niceness - by & about Marilyn Hagerty

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There was an interesting piece published earlier this month in a North Dakota newspaper earlier this month that had an absolutely fascinatin...
Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Time Magazine Pieces: Journalists Escaping Syria / Climate Change & Bill McKibben

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There were a few excellent pieces of writing from the past couple issues of Time Magazine , starting with the most recent Mar 19 edition. Co...
Monday, March 12, 2012

Businessweek Pieces: Twitter / Coursera / Andrew Stanton / Pulse App / Nextdoor / Olympic Ambush Marketing / Pico Iyer

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As often seems to be the case, there were quite a few interesting pieces from Businessweek lately. Cover story of the March 5-11 issue wa...