Monday, March 31, 2014

Great writing by Price, Sandomir & Jacobsen

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Three pieces of recent great writing I hadn't previously posted on were from Sports Illustrated , the New York Times and Outside Magazi...

Esquire writing - new feature by D'Agostino on ADHD & old one by Junod on Mr. Rogers

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The latest issue of Esquire had a great feature by Ryan D'Agostino titled "The Drugging of the American Boy" on ADHD. D'...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Pieces on writing - by Michael Kruse, Bethany McLean & on Tom Bodett

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It's been a while since I last posted on pieces about writing and I was fascinated by three that I came across recently. For his perso...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014

ESPN The Magazine writing by Jones and Olney

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Two great recent stories from ESPN were "A Long Journey to Spring" by Chris Jones on Kansas City Royals coach Mike Jirschele a...
Monday, March 24, 2014

"Showtime" by Jeff Pearlman

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Showtime by Jeff Pearlman was on the Los Angeles Lakers team of the 1980s and would be a great read for a Lakers fan, and was still an int...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Michael Paterniti writing - on burrneshas in Albania & a jumbo jet crash at sea

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Michael Paterniti is a non-fiction writer I've posted on a number of times and recently I've seen two additional features from him...

Writing by and on Matthew Power

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Recently while on assignment in Africa, non-fiction writer Matthew Power died and his passing brought about some profound remembrances as w...
Sunday, March 09, 2014

Book excerpt from Ron Suskind

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A couple of days ago in the New York Times Magazine was a great book excerpt from political writer Ron Suskind .  "Reaching My Autisti...

Great sports writing - by Pearlman, Kennedy and Tomlinson

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Three excellent pieces of sports writing I've seen recently included two book excerpts in Sports Illustrated and a feature for the ESPN...
Wednesday, March 05, 2014

"Young Money" by Kevin Roose

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Young Money by Kevin Roose was an interesting and very fast read about junior investment bankers working on Wall Street. The book chronicl...

Writing I liked - with pieces by Moallem, Schur and Hampikian

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Three excellent pieces of non-sports writing from the past few weeks which I haven't posted on yet included pieces from Grantland and t...
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...