Monday, October 29, 2012

Excellent Sports Writing - by Chris Ballard, Jeff Passan & Chris Jones

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There's been two pieces of great sports writing I've come across lately that also brought to mind solid work from years past. Stor...
Friday, October 26, 2012

Writers on Writing - Rose, Conn, Travis & Jones

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There's been a few things I've come across lately that fall within the subject of writing that I love to prattle on about . The ol...
Sunday, October 21, 2012

Solid Sports Writing - on FC Barcelona, Oakland A's & Chris Kluwe

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Three different excellent pieces of sports writing to note here... with a couple being a few weeks old and one just a few days. The recent...
Friday, October 19, 2012

Fast Company Features - on Pinterest, Windows 8, Uniqlo and Coursera

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After not reading Fast Company for a few months, I went through three issues recently and found several features that stood out. The Aug ...
Saturday, October 13, 2012

Outside Magazine on Bill McKibben & Texas Monthly on Kermit Oliver

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Two excellent pieces of profile writing to note here... one interesting in the work being done by someone and the other for both the work an...
Friday, October 12, 2012

Businessweek writing - on Facebook, Apple, Pandora & EcoATM

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There were a few Businessweek pieces from the past few issues that stood out as being on interesting companies... with a couple of the stor...

"Sutton" by J.R. Moehringer

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I wanted to love Sutton ,  J.R. Moehringer's first novel, but after reading it, found myself somewhat disappointed. I've been ...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Great Sports Writing by Dana O'Neil & Sam Page

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Two really exceptional pieces of writing I came across today... both dealing with sports figures and each telling a compelling story way bey...
Sunday, October 07, 2012

Compelling Writing from Lake, Gethard, Knapp and Kluwe

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There's been some excellent writing from a few different sources to note here. For Sports Illustrated last month, Thomas Lake wrote ...
Thursday, October 04, 2012

ESPN Writing - by Keown, Jones and McGee

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There were a few pieces of writing that stood out from both a recent and several months back edition of  ESPN the Magazine . From the Oct ...
Monday, October 01, 2012

My New Book - 111 Books Reviewed

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Yep, I wrote another book... 111 Books Reviewed . After I at the end of March finished the project to put 3 ½ years of blog posts into boo...
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...