Friday, June 28, 2013

"The Innocent Man" feature by Pamela Colloff for Texas Monthly

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The two-part magazine feature came out last fall, but I just this week finally read "The Innocent Man" ( second part here ) by  P...
Thursday, June 27, 2013

"Wild Ones" by Jon Mooallem

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Wild Ones by Jon Mooallem was an interesting book with the equally interesting and long subtitle A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring...
Monday, June 24, 2013

Well done and interesting sports stories - by Davis, Sneed, Knapp & Adelson

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There's a few recent sports stories to mention here that struck me for different reasons. From SB Nation Longform came two excellent ...
Monday, June 17, 2013

Writing on fathers and fatherhood - by Mooney, Jones & others

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I a few days ago came across a story on new fathers serving in the military and that got me thinking about some past great writing I've ...
Sunday, June 16, 2013

Ruminations on creativity - by Sendak, Oswalt & others

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A few different things I've seen recently that stood out to me around the creative process (which certainly includes, but is not limited...
Saturday, June 15, 2013

Wisdom on working - by Sager, Magary, Chiarella & Goldman

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They're not all terribly recent, but four pieces of solid writing to share here have the common theme of providing wisdom on working (wh...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Eli Saslow on the family of a slain Newtown child

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Such a great story by Eli Saslow for the Washington Post a few days ago. "After Newtown shooting, mourning parents enter into the lon...
Monday, June 10, 2013

Racism in Italian Soccer Piece by Wright Thompson

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Published last week for ESPN was a great feature by Wright Thompson  with  "When the Beautiful Game Turns Ugly" . I've posted ...
Thursday, June 06, 2013

Writing Wisdom - by Vonnegut, Tomlinson, Stout & Richmond on Hersey

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Prattling on about writing and linking to established writers doing so is one of my favorite things to do on this blog and over the past fe...
Monday, June 03, 2013

Book writing wisdom from Jason Fagone

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There was a series of tweets on the subject of writing which caught my eye a week or so back that I wanted to preserve in posterity (well, k...

"Driving Mr. Albert" by Michael Paterniti

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Driving Mr. Albert by Michael Paterniti was a tremendously well written and interesting book that worked on multiple levels. It's ...
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...