Thursday, February 27, 2014

My new book compilation - More Words Written Down

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Well, I wrote another book. After in March 2012 self-publishing a compilation culled from of 3 1/2 years of blog posts and then in October ...

"Trapped Under the Sea" by Neil Swidey

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Trapped Under the Sea by Neil Swidey was a highly entertaining read that combined a disaster tale with a fascinating story of engineering ...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Great sports writing - by Passan, Jenkins & Schlereth

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There's been a few pieces of really good sports writing over the past few weeks that I haven't linked to previously. for Yahoo Spo...
Sunday, February 23, 2014

Outside Magazine feature on Zina Lahr by Grayson Schaffer

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A great story posted recently to the Outside Magazine website was "The Brief, Wondrous Life of Zina Lahr " written by Grayson Sc...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Favorite Winter Olympics writing so far - by Farber, Wetzel & Drehs

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There's of course been a lot written about the Sochi Olympics and my three favorite stories to date are by Michael Farber , Dan Wetzel ...
Sunday, February 16, 2014

"The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon" by Brad Stone

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The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon  by Brad Stone was a thoroughly reported and well written look at Bezos and what the...
Thursday, February 13, 2014

Excellent sports writing - by Murphy, Magary and Arthur

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Three different pieces of excellent sports writing I've seen recently ran the gauntlet of topics with them respectively covering topics ...

ESPN writing - Saslow on Aroldis Chapman & Jones on Cuba and Hemingway

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The latest issue of ESPN The Magazine had two excellent pieces of writing, a feature by Eli Saslow and column by Chris Jones . The column ...
Sunday, February 09, 2014

Ashlee Vance on Illumina and the $1,000 genome sequencing

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There was a really interesting feature from a recent issue of Businessweek with Ashlee Vance writing " Illumina 's new low-cost g...
Wednesday, February 05, 2014

Jeff Sharlet GQ piece on the hatred of gays in Russia

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There's a tremendous feature from the latest issue of GQ with "Inside the Iron Closet: What It's Like to Be Gay in Putin's...
Tuesday, February 04, 2014

"Beautiful Ruins" by Jess Walter

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Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter is a novel that swept across decades in it's scope and featured really well-formed and memorable charac...
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...