Friday, August 30, 2013

Esquire writing on the world we live in - by Granger, Richardson, Marche & Raab

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The September issue of Esquire Magazine had a number of great pieces, with many of them around the theme of our world and the government...

Great sports writing - profiles by Thompson and St. John

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Some extremely well done recent profiles on major sports figures included two from Wright Thompson for ESPN The Magazine  and one from Warr...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Excellent Sports Illustrated writing- by Smith, Reiter, Chen, Price & Rushin

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Not sure if this was a change that Sports Illustrated just made, but apparently watching a short ad online now makes available for reading ...
Saturday, August 17, 2013

Writers on writing - Mooney, Thompson, & Gangrey contributors

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There's been a few excellent cases I've seen lately of writers on the subject of writing, with specific topics covered including mul...

"Sisterland" by Curtis Sittenfeld

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Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld was a solid work of fiction from an author who I haven't posted on anything by or about  in some time....
Sunday, August 11, 2013

Great writing on Medicine & Money - by Fagone, Gawande & Lewis

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There's been a few pieces of writing I've seen recently that struck me as particularly excellent on the subjects of medicine and mon...
Thursday, August 08, 2013

"The Telling Room" by Michael Paterniti

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The Telling Room by Michael Paterniti was a remarkable book that went beyond what I expected from it, but was also consistent with Paternit...

Great newspaper writing - from the Tampa Bay Times, New York Times & San Francisco Chronicle

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There's been a number of newspaper stories I've seen recently that struck me as outstanding works to note here, with two of them fro...
Wednesday, August 07, 2013

Businessweek features - by Featherstone, Faris, Greenfeld & Vance

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Four different Businessweek features that struck me as particularly interesting over the past few weeks were on nuclear cleanup, unemployme...
Friday, August 02, 2013

Interesting Fast Company writing - with features by Jon Gertner & Charles Fishman

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There's been a few different pieces from Fast Company recently that struck me as particularly noteworthy with two from the magazine and...
Thursday, August 01, 2013

Outdoor adventure writing - by Chivers, Broyles & Rose

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Three pieces of excellent outdoor-related writing to note here included two works from Outside Magazine and one from Field & Stream . ...
Friday, July 26, 2013

"Bad Monkey" by Carl Hiaasen

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Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaasen was a fast-paced and entertaining novel based in the author's home state of Florida as well as in the Baham...
Monday, July 22, 2013

ESPN writing - by Thompson, Merrill & Jones

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There's been a few pieces from ESPN (both online and The Magazine) that stood out to me recently, with topics ranging from Aaron Hernan...

Writers on writing - Whedon, Chiarella & Hastings

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There's been a few pieces on the subject of writing I've seen recently that contained some insight I thought worth holding onto. T...
Friday, July 19, 2013

Piece on donating to a children's hospital - and other Chris Jones essays for Esquire

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There was a recent short piece by Chris Jones from the August 2013 issue of Esquire that both struck me as particularly great and made me ...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Fast Company Destination Design 2.0 event

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While most of the posts on this blog are about great writing come across (the title after all is words written down) , there's also been...
Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Great Magazine writing - by Dan P. Lee, Tom Junod & Julian Rubinstein

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As I a few days ago posted on recent great newspaper stories I've seen , it seemed fitting to move on to posting about some excellent ma...
Saturday, July 13, 2013

Great Newspaper writing - by Eli Saslow, Clay Tarver, Wil Hylton & Courtney Queeny

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There's been some excellent pieces I've seen from newspapers over the past few weeks with really solid work both in the New York Tim...
Wednesday, July 10, 2013

"Someone Could Get Hurt" by Drew Magary

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Someone Could Get Hurt  by Drew Magary was a riff on parenthood that had some interesting stuff in it and would likely ring true for anyone ...

"The Skies Belong to Us" by Brendan Koerner

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The Skies Belong to Us  by Brendan Koerner was an excellent book in which he did the trick of taking an interesting topic, finding particula...