Sunday, March 31, 2013

Positive sports stories - on Elena Delle Donne & Mike Matheny

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About a week ago I came across a sports story about things more important than just winning or losing and more recently saw (and was reminde...
Thursday, March 28, 2013

Feature writing by Mooney, Power & Chivers

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There's a few pieces of writing to note here that may not share huge connection with one another other than they're all exceptionall...
Saturday, March 23, 2013

Businessweek features - by Greenfeld, Hannan, Ricadela, Vance & Leonard

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Over the past few months there's been some excellent  Businessweek features to note here. The Jan 10 edition cover story was "Ca...
Saturday, March 16, 2013

Baseball writing - by Jordan, Kepner, Sargent & Jenkins

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As MLB Opening Day approaches, there's been some excellent writing on baseball I've come across lately. For the SB Nation Longfor...
Monday, March 11, 2013

Nieman Foundation talk with Clayton Christensen & David Skok

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As someone interested in not just great writing, but also the production of great writing, I found of note a recent  videotaped discussion h...
Saturday, March 09, 2013

Writing on interesting places, writing on nice stories and writing on mental health

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There's been some excellent writing I've come across lately that seems to link together with two pieces being about interesting plac...

Hockey writing by Jeff MacGregor, Tim Rohan & Sarah Hampson

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I've lately come across a few pieces of writing that stood out as excellent which all dealt with the sport of hockey, just different thi...
Wednesday, March 06, 2013

Esquire pieces - Bin Laden Shooter by Bronstein & Kutcher profile by Chiarella

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There were two pieces from the March 2013 issue of Esquire Magazine that stood out as particularly interesting and thought-provoking. The f...
Monday, March 04, 2013

Basketball writing from Sports Illustrated - by Jenkins & McCallum

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There's been three pieces of basketball writing I've seen recently (all from Sports Illustrated ) that struck me as particularly int...
Saturday, March 02, 2013

Cinequest 2013 Writers Celebration event

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I recently came across a fascinating Vanity Fair article "When the Spec Script was King" by Margaret Heidenry about the ups and ...
Friday, March 01, 2013

"After Friday Night Lights" by Buzz Bissinger

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After Friday Night Lights was a compelling eBook from Buzz Bissinger that followed up on his bestselling Friday Night Lights book written...
Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Mr. Rogers in words 10 years later - by Tom Junod & others

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I earlier today saw on Twitter two posts from Esquire Magazine writer  Tom Junod  that struck me as powerful and sent me off in search of m...
Sunday, February 24, 2013

Writers on writing - Jones, Montgomery, Lake, Tullis, Lamott & Gilbert

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I frequently post about writers on writing and there's been a few recent compelling pieces about writing from three different sources t...
Friday, February 22, 2013

Best writing linked to in 2012

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Rather than repeat the lateness of my post that went up on Jan 7th, 2013 titled "Best Writing Linked to in 2011" , I'm noting...
Saturday, February 16, 2013

Compelling sports stories - by Wright Thompson, Greg Bishop & Ryan O'Hanlon

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My favorite pieces of sports writing come across recently were three that stood out for wildly divergent reasons. The oldest was one a f...
Thursday, February 14, 2013

Time Magazine pieces - by Lev Grossman, Mark Thompson & Austin Ramzy

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Time Magazine has had some really interesting pieces from the last few months to note here... and which are available online to anyone with ...
Sunday, February 10, 2013

Writing on athletes off the field of play - by Chuck Culpepper, R.A. Dickey & Chuck Klosterman

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There's been three pieces of writing I've seen recently that dealt with professional athletes attempting to accomplish things that g...

"The Lost City of Z" by David Grann

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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann was a pretty compelling read about famed English explorer Perc...
Wednesday, February 06, 2013

Stories of the amazing - by Mike Dash for the Smithsonian & Robert Worth for the NYT Magazine

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There's two different magazine pieces I saw last week that stood out as amazing true stories that were written well. For the Smithsoni...
Monday, February 04, 2013

Adventure writing - by C.J. Chivers, Steven Rinella and A.G. Sulzberger

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There's been some great writing I've come across lately that trafficked in the fairly wide-ranging subject of outdoor adventure. ...