Monday, December 31, 2012

New York Times Snow Fall interactive feature

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"Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek" was an amazing feature from the New York Times that stood out on multiple levels. The...
Friday, December 28, 2012

The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver

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The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver is a solid book on predictions and probability which at times is a bit weighty, but due more to th...
Friday, December 21, 2012

Sports writing from Smith, Chen, Saslow & Carpenter

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There's been some remarkable sports writing over the past week from a variety of different sources. Most profound of the pieces was by...
Thursday, December 20, 2012

NY Times Piece on a mother and father rushing to Sandy Hook Elementary

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After avoiding for about a week reading anything in depth on what happened at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, I found from a post on the w...
Sunday, December 16, 2012

Fives instances of or about great storytelling

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There's been a number of interesting things I've come across on Twitter lately that all fall under the topic of great storytelling. ...
Thursday, December 13, 2012

Esquire Features on Elon Musk & John Hickenlooper

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There was excellent writing throughout the December '12 Esquire   Americans of the Year issue and two profiles that struck me as partic...
Monday, December 10, 2012

Lee Jenkins Feature on LeBron James

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The latest issue of Sports Illustrated had an excellent cover story by Lee Jenkins on SI's 2012 Sportsman of the Year , LeBron James ....
Sunday, December 09, 2012

Reading & writing - along with Stephen Marche essay

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Over the past four years of writing this blog, I've intermittently thought about and occasionally written on (usually with a post tag of...
Thursday, December 06, 2012

Solid Sports Writing - by Tomlinson, Ballard, Layden, Davis, Price & Miklasz

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It may be a lot to include in one post, but I've recently read six pieces of really good sports writing that group into three different ...
Tuesday, December 04, 2012

Businessweek & Fast Company Features

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There were a few pieces that stood out from recent issues of Businessweek and Fast Company . The latest BW had two feature stories of note...
Sunday, December 02, 2012

Excellent sports writing - on Ricky Rubio, Jack Jablonski & Pat Schiller

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Three pieces of sports writing I've come across recently from three very different sources stood out as compelling. Published on The ...
Thursday, November 29, 2012

"Rise to Greatness" by David Von Drehle

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Rise to Greatness by David Von Drehle was a solid work of historical non-fiction that chronicles Abraham Lincoln's actions throughout...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Writers on Writing - from Nieman Storyboard & The Oatmeal

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There's a couple of pieces I've come across lately on the subject of writing that stood out as particularly great... one a series of...
Thursday, November 22, 2012

Solid ESPN Writing by Van Valkenburg & Winegardner

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There were two excellent pieces of writing from the latest issue of ESPN The Magazine . Very much related to the theme of LSU vs Alabama, ...
Monday, November 19, 2012

Feature stories by Heckert and Veselka

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Two excellent feature stories I've seen recently were from Justin Heckert and Vanessa Veselka respectively. Published in the Novembe...
Friday, November 16, 2012

Excellent features on Oregon running backs

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Separated a couple of months apart were two profiles written on Oregon running backs. From the September 24 issue of Sports Illustrated , ...
Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Writers & what they write - Gisondi, Hemphill, Montgomery and Michelson

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There's been a few pieces lately that stood out to me either on or illustrative about the process of writing. In terms of actually on ...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

"Elsewhere" by Richard Russo

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Elsewhere by Richard Russo is an interesting memoir from the writer of notable works of fiction like Straight Man (which I read and enjoy...
Thursday, November 08, 2012

Feature stories by Rehagen, Martel & Manteuffel

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There's three great pieces of writing I came across a week or so ago from a few random sources thanks to the wonder that is links via tw...
Monday, November 05, 2012

Sports Writing by Wayne Drehs, Alex Belth & Eli Saslow

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There's a few pieces of sports writing I've seen lately that stood out as outstanding and which haven't previously been noted he...