Saturday, November 30, 2013

Interesting sports pieces - on Jovan Belcher, John Harbaugh, Andy Hershock & Marcus Smart

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Some of the sports writing I've seen recently that struck me as particularly interesting included stories by Jeff Pearlman, Kevin Van V...
Thursday, November 28, 2013

"David and Goliath" by Malcolm Gladwell

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David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell was a book that had a number of interesting stories and ideas that could be pulled from them, but al...
Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Writing on different times & different places - by Colloff, Mogelson & Goldberg

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There's been a few pieces of writing I've seen in the past few weeks that struck me as excellent and which felt to be about the them...

"Vanished" by Wil Hylton

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Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II by Wil Hylton was a book that I was excited to start and then glad to ...
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Profile pieces - Scheiber on Warren, Junod on Clooney & Eells on Cyrus

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Three great profile pieces recently were on quite the wide variety of subjects, none of whom I've previously linked to pieces about. F...
Saturday, November 16, 2013

Interesting pieces on writing and the writing process

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There's been some excellent pieces on writing to note here including ones I've seen in the past week and two from earlier this year....
Sunday, November 10, 2013

Writing by Saslow, Gawande & Cowen - on the Navy Yard shooting, food stamps, health care & Texas

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There's been a few pieces of writing I've come across lately that were all linked together in a fairly circuitous route. A writer ...

Pieces on writing: screenwriting, work from Glenn Stout, craft of writing & writing for free

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It's been over a month since I last posted on pieces with writing wisdom so there's a lot of great material about writing to note h...
Friday, November 08, 2013

Writers whose books I look forward to

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A topic that's been kicking around in my head for a while now is around the writers whose books I look forward to reading. This follows ...
Sunday, November 03, 2013

Compelling sports writing - by Ballard, Layden & Sneed

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There's been three different pieces of sports writing I've seen lately (each of which covered well an interesting subject) that betw...

"The Signature of All Things" by Elizabeth Gilbert

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The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert was a novel that featured great prose from Gilbert on an interesting subject and may have...
Thursday, October 31, 2013

Business of writing - on Omidyar, Greenwald & new media

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There were some fascinating pieces in the past few weeks covering the business of writing, in particular stories on a forthcoming startup ne...
Sunday, October 20, 2013

Great sports writing - by Flinder Boyd, Lee Jenkins & David Fleming

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There's three different pieces of sports feature writing that struck me as outstanding lately, with two of them reminding me of other st...
Friday, October 18, 2013

Gravity by Alfonso Cuarón & writing on the movie by Jones & Lee

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Gravity by Alfonso Cuarón  has been a much talked about and written on movie since it's release and after seeing it a few days ago, it ...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Esquire & Time Magazine writing - by Junod, McCracken, Walsh and Scherer

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The most recent issue of Esquire and last few issues of Time Magazine had some great feature writing (with the Time site typically requiri...

Businessweek writing - by Vance on Ramona Pierson & Stone on Jeff Bezos

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Businessweek  recently had two great pieces by writers who I consistently find excellent work from, Ashlee Vance and Brad Stone . " ...
Saturday, October 12, 2013

"What I Talk About When I Talk About Running" by Haruki Murakami

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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running  was an interesting memoir about running and writing from novelist Haruki Murakami . The boo...
Tuesday, October 08, 2013

Great sports storytelling - writing by Posnanski, Price, Wickersham and Phillips & videos on Devon Walker and Steve Gleason with Pearl Jam

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Great storytelling can often come in many different sizes and flavors, with a few stories to note here covering multiple types of sports wri...

Writing on kids & parenting - by Greenfeld, Paul, Ripley & Stafford

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A couple of interesting pieces lately on the subject of kids and parenting included essays from The Atlantic and The Huffington Post as well...
Thursday, October 03, 2013

My writing - past & not past

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While I often do posts with a tag of writing , and in those link to pieces others have done about the putting together of great writing, it ...