Friday, May 31, 2013

Businessweek writing - on Netflix, Google X, GoPro & Southern New Hampshire U

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There's been a few pieces from Businessweek over the past few weeks that stood out as particularly interesting with two cover features ...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

Oklahoma tornado writing - by Layden, Montgomery, Von Drehle and Kluger

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There's been a few great pieces of writing I've seen on the tornado that struck the town of Moore, Oklahoma. The Time Magazine cove...
Monday, May 27, 2013

"How Children Succeed" by Paul Tough

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How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character was written by Paul Tough and a bit of a slow read at times, but ...
Friday, May 24, 2013

Inspiring stories - on Oklahoma tornado survivors, astronaut Chris Hadfield & Ricochet the surf dog

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There's a few stories I've seen recently on very different topics, but that all fall under the umbrella of being inspiring words and...
Friday, May 17, 2013

Great sports stories - by Jones, Lake & Watson

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There's three pieces of sports writing I've seen over the past few weeks that struck me as particularly solid and are available now ...
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Fast Company Writing

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The past few issues of Fast Company Magazine  had a number of features and short pieces that stood out far a variety of reasons. Going fur...
Friday, May 10, 2013

Time Magazine writing - on U.S. manufacturing / Uniqlo / 3 of the Time 100 Most Influential People

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There's been a few interesting things out of Time Magazine recently with three of them being short pieces on people in the Time 100 Mos...
Thursday, May 09, 2013

Excellent feature writing - by Pressler, Paterniti & Mooallem

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There's been three feature articles I've seen lately that struck me as outstanding, with two from GQ Magazine and one the New York ...
Saturday, May 04, 2013

Writing on people with ALS - by Jeff Pearlman & Pete Thamel

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I last Wednesday coincidentally came across two pieces of writing about people afflicted with ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease). Each work was...

Writing on economies in trouble - by Joel Stein & Stephan Faris

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Two excellent pieces of writing from Businessweek recently shared the common theme of being about economies in trouble and what's being...
Wednesday, May 01, 2013

Jason Collins SI cover story & writing on Collins

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While none of it as singularly impactful as the first-person narrative  "Why NBA center Jason Collins is coming out now"  that Co...
Monday, April 29, 2013

Nice sports stories - by Posnanski, Culpepper & Vitez

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Three different sports stories I've come across in the past few weeks stood out as being well-written pieces about stories that are just...
Wednesday, April 24, 2013

"Out in the Great Alone" on the Iditarod by Brian Phillips

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There was really a remarkable story published today on Grantland . "Out in the Great Alone" was written by Brian Phillips and is...
Saturday, April 20, 2013

Writing on Boston & on Guns - by Charlie Pierce & Gabrielle Giffords

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It's somewhat remarkable to me that conversation around the Boston Marathon bombing would be completely separate from the larger questi...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

Writing on the Boston Marathon Bombing

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Not to simply list out great writing (well, actually, exactly to simply list out great writing) since the Boston Marathon bombing , there...
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Writers on writing - wisdom, education and producing it for free

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There's been a lot of pieces I've come across over the last 4-6 weeks on the subject of writing (which I love to link to pieces on )...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Outdoor writing for Outside & GQ - by McMahon, Fedarko & Grant

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There's been three pieces of outdoor related writing I'm seen recently that I found particularly good and each from a writer I hadn...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Excellent sports stories - by Jones, Assael, Wertheim, Wahl & Mooney

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There's been a few different pieces of sports writing I've seen lately that stood out as excellent with those to note here being fro...
Tuesday, April 09, 2013

"Plan B" by David Kord Murray

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Plan B: How to Hatch a Second Plan That's Always Better Than Your First by David Kord Murray may have taken a long time between purchas...
Saturday, April 06, 2013

Writing on & by Roger Ebert

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Such a shame, the passing of Roger Ebert a few days ago. There's been a number of great remembrances written (and I'm sure still to...