Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Great writing on life and death - by Justin Heckert, Chaz Ebert & Chris Jones

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Throughout the process of writing this blog, I've tried to make connections between great writing come across and three recent excellent...
Tuesday, December 24, 2013

"Crash and Burn" by Artie Lange

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Crash and Burn by Artie Lange was a book that would be sure to be interesting for anyone that's a fan of the comedian and is a pretty ...

Sports Illustrated pieces on Newtown - by S.L. Price & Gary Gramling

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Two recent Sports Illustrated features that really stuck with me both were about a subject I've previously written on and linked to und...
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Writing wisdom & resources from Nieman Reports, Fischer, Fagone & Nadler

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As it's been a month since I last wrote about and linked to writing wisdom , a whole entire month (!), there's a few interesting pie...

Writing on NSA & CIA activities and people impacted - by Reitman, Apuzzo & Goldman

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Two fascinating stories recent stories fell under the topic of government secrets and the lives impacted by them.  "Snowden and Greenwa...
Friday, December 13, 2013

"The Smartest Kids in the World" by Amanda Ripley

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The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley was a really interesting book on world education told in large part through the stories of...
Thursday, December 12, 2013

Great outdoor adventure writing - by Kearns & Holland & Donnellly

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Three recent pieces of outdoor adventure writing struck me as noteworthy with each from a writer I haven't linked to previously. For F...
Sunday, December 08, 2013

Great writing on the NFL, warrior culture and walking away - by Keown & Phillips

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An excellent recent piece for ESPN brought to mind for me two essays done a month ago after the Richie Incognito - Jonathan Martin story br...
Saturday, December 07, 2013

Writing on discontent in Brazil & on Nelson Mandela - by Thompson, Posnanski, Jones & Gingrich

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Two days ago there was a great piece of writing on political discontent in Brazil that felt to be connected to other excellent work I'v...
Thursday, December 05, 2013

Interesting business writing - by Ford & Stone for Businessweek and McMillan for Wired

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Three different pieces of recent business writing that struck me as particularly interesting were on companies I've written about and po...
Monday, December 02, 2013

Great writing by Wollan for the NYT, Grann for The New Yorker and Junod, Warren & Granger for Esquire

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Three feature stories I've seen recently that struck me as exceptional were written about a major street gang that took on the branding...
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 ...