Friday, September 28, 2012

Excellent Pieces by Gladwell, Heckert & Lewis

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There were three solid (and lengthy) feature stories that stood out from recent issues of some of the bigger national general interest magaz...
Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Great Sports Writing - by MacGregor, Wetzel & Tomlinson

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Three pieces of sports writing recently that struck me as particular compelling work from three different sources. For ESPN , Jeff MacGreg...

"Triburbia" by Karl Taro Greenfeld

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Triburbia by Karl Taro Greenfeld is a fictional slice-of-life work from a guy who I’ve previously found to have written great non-fiction ...
Sunday, September 23, 2012

Writers on Writing - Stout, Jones, Gutkind, Boo, Streitfeld

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There’s been quite a few solid pieces I've come across lately that deal in the subject of writers and their writing. A profile of some...
Monday, September 17, 2012

Businessweek Features: on Elon Musk, Distributed Work & College Tuition Grants

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Three different Businessweek features stood out lately as being on particularly interesting topics. In particular, the latest cover story o...
Sunday, September 16, 2012

"Alaskan Travels" by Edward Hoagland

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Alaskan Travels by Edward Hoagland was written as a sort of travelogue of the time Hoagland spent in the Alaska some 30 years ago while in...
Thursday, September 13, 2012

Outside Magazine Pieces by Bruce Barcott and Tom Vanderbilt & Nat Geo story by Michael Finkel

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There were two piece of writing that stood out from the September issue of Outside Magazine ... with one of them finally now posted online w...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Danger of Football Pieces by Melissa Segura, Gregg Doyel & Patrick Hruby

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There were three recent pieces on the danger of football that were each excellent and made me think of past solid writing I've linked to...
Saturday, September 08, 2012

Mark Singer on marathon fraud & writer discussion of it

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There was a fascinating piece in The New Yorker last month followed by an equally compelling writer discussion of the story, it's merit...
Thursday, September 06, 2012

"Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

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Recently heard of the film and saw the movie trailer for Life of Pi , coming out late November and directed by Ang Lee . Based on the Yann M...
Sunday, September 02, 2012

Businessweek Writing - Greenfeld on ESPN / Stone on Marissa Mayer / Bennett on Social+Capital VC Fund

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Three excellent features from Businessweek to highlight here... The most recent issue included " ESPN : Everywhere Sports Profit Netwo...
Saturday, September 01, 2012

"The Hunger Games" Trilogy by Suzanne Collins

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After reading the first two books and most of the third back in late May, finally finished Mockingjay , the third book in Suzanne Collins ...
Friday, August 31, 2012

Solid Writing from Sports Illustrated on Baseball & ESPN on Football

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There's four excellent pieces of sports writing to note here with two from ESPN the Magazine and two from Sports Illustrated . The ES...
Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Great Tennis Writing from John Jeremiah Sullivan & S.L. Price

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There was an excellent profile of Venus and Serena Williams recently that brought to mind another solid piece of writing following Serena...
Friday, August 24, 2012

Sports Illustrated Writing: from Layden, Jenkins & Wertheim

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There's been a few cases of Sports Illustrated writing lately that stood out as excellent and can be linked to (an additional solid sto...
Saturday, August 18, 2012

"Jacques Plante: The Man Who Changed the Face of Hockey" by Todd Denault

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Jacques Plante : The Man Who Changed the Face of Hockey was a book that I wanted to enjoy more than I actually did. Written by Todd Denault...
Monday, August 13, 2012

College Football Pieces by Rick Bragg, Wright Thompson & Kevin Van Valkenburg for ESPN

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Three features from the Aug 20 ESPN the Magazine College Football preview stood out to me as excellent. Lengthiest was the profile " U...
Friday, August 10, 2012

Writers on Writing - from Thompson, Whitehead & Stout

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I've come across a few different pieces lately that feature some really solid content by writers on how they do (or have done) their wor...
Wednesday, August 08, 2012

Favorite Olympic Writing So Far

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There's quite possibly been better pieces that have been and are still to be written on the London Olympics, but a few have stood out to...
Sunday, August 05, 2012

Two great pieces on light and dark side of football - by Wright Thompson & Patrick Hruby

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There's two pieces of writing I've seen lately that take completely different approaches to looking at football and which seem equal...