Thursday, January 30, 2014

Best non-sports writing linked to in 2013

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Following up on my "Best sports writing linked to in 2013" is this chronological listing of what to me were most memorable piece ...

Best sports writing linked to in 2013

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Following on the year-old heels of my post "Best writing linked to in 2012" is... yep, the best writing I linked to in 2013 (with...
Saturday, January 25, 2014

"One Summer: America, 1927" by Bill Bryson

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One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson was an excellent book from the entertaining and funny author of books such as A Walk in The Woods...

"An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth" by Chris Hadfield

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An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield was a fast and interesting book from someone who I first heard about from his r...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Solid & quiet sports writing - by Wetzel, Bidini & Jones

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There's been a few pieces of really good sports writing I've seen lately that seemed to group together with each feeling to be excel...

Excellent Sports Illustrated writing - by Price, Layden & Davis

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Three great pieces of recent sports writing were from the last few issues of Sports Illustrated with features by S.L. Price and Tim Layden ...
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Interesting business writing - by Newman, Higginbotham, Wolman and Winter

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Some excellent pieces of business-related writing I've seen recently included three from Businessweek and one from the San Jose Mercury...
Tuesday, January 07, 2014

GQ pieces - Drew Magary on Phil Robertson & Jason Kersten on drug smuggling

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The Jan 2014 issue of GQ Magazine had two fascinating pieces of feature writing to note here. The more talked about of the two was  ...
Sunday, January 05, 2014

Baseball writing - by Jordan, Lake & Castrovince

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Three different pieces of excellent writing I've seen over the past few weeks were on the sport of baseball. Written by Pat Jordan fo...

In-depth newspaper features - on Christopher Dorner, a homeless child in NYC & a man overboard

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There were three recent in-depth newspaper features that stood out to me as particularly excellent. Two of them were for the New York Time...

Writing on Edward Snowden - by Barton Gellman & the NYT Editorial Board

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Two interesting pieces of late on NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden (who was also profiled along with Glenn Greenwald in an excellent Roll...
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...