words written down

This blog is all about words because they matter, they influence, they entertain and when you put them down on a page in a meaningful order, they acquire permanence. Contained here is my writing over the past 10+ years, primarily book reviews over the past ~5 years, and I also have a book review podcast, Talking Nonfiction, available on Apple or Spotify.

Monday, September 30, 2013

Writing on guns, violence & our reaction to both

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There's been a few pieces I've come across in past weeks related to guns, violence & our reactions to both. Each was excellent w...
Saturday, September 28, 2013

Writing education & wisdom

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There's been a few great things to note here that I've seen recently that fall under the closely linked subjects of writing educatio...
Monday, September 23, 2013

Outside Magazine features - by Hampton Sides, Mark Jenkins & Kyle Dickman

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There's a few great pieces I've seen lately from Outside Magazine , with two personal essays from the "Guide to Life" Octo...
Wednesday, September 18, 2013

"Outcasts United" by Warren St. John

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Outcasts United by Warren St. John was a book that I found to be a fairly interesting read, but may well have enjoyed more had I gotten th...
Sunday, September 15, 2013

Lessons on writing - from Sager, Koppelman & Leonard

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In the tradition of my ruminating on and linking to pieces on the subject of writing , there's a few great pieces to note here that cont...
Thursday, September 12, 2013

9/11 Story from Washington Post along with Welles Crowther & Boatlift videos

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There's a few incredibly well done stories and videos I saw yesterday on the anniversary of 9/11 that struck me as inspiring about the ...
Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Great pieces that dealt with humanity - by Mooney, Harding & Deitsch

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There's a few pieces of writing I've seen lately that were really well done and for me struck a cord in the humanity showed in them....
Monday, September 09, 2013

Great sports writing - by Ballard, Pearlman, Kluwe & Mailer

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There's a few different excellent pieces of sports writing I haven't previously posted on with them from a wide variety of authors ...
Thursday, September 05, 2013

Interesting business writing - on Amazon, Palantir and the U.S. power grid

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There's been three pieces of business writing I've seen lately that struck me as particularly interesting, with features from Fast C...
Wednesday, September 04, 2013

"Ingenious" by Jason Fagone

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Ingenious by Jason Fagone was an interesting book the covered a group of remarkable automotive inventors. Fagone is a writer who I'v...
Monday, September 02, 2013

Excellent GQ pieces - by Laskas, Johnson & Paterniti

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While there's a few excellent pieces from the latest GQ that I'll write on and link to later once they're online, past issues o...
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...
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