Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Gary Smith retirement writing - by Price, Posnanski, Tomlinson & Reilly

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There was some excellent pieces of writing done recently with longtime Sports Illustrated feature writer Gary Smith announcing his retirem...

Boston Marathon stories - by Lowery & Pfeiffer

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Two really interesting pieces sports writing were done recently on the Boston Marathon last month, with one before and one after the race. ...
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

GQ piece by Paterniti on Spanish restaurant & Esquire by Pierce on Elizabeth Warren

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Recent issues of GQ and Esquire had two really sold pieces of recent feature magazine writing to note here. From GQ, Michael Paterniti wrot...
Monday, April 28, 2014

Writing on Matthew Powers & Alaska's Aniakchak National Monument

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Two pieces of recent writing I found to be excellent were a feature on travel to a remote national park system area at the start of the Aleu...
Tuesday, April 22, 2014

GoPro story by Bill Gifford in Businessweek

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A terribly interesting story in a recent Businessweek was " GoPro Goes Big as a Hybrid Media Company/Videocam Maker" by Bill Gi...

"Bigger Than the Game" by Dirk Hayhurst

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Bigger Than the Game by Dirk Hayhurst  was an interesting follow up book to his first two books Out of My League  ( which I reviewed here )...

Surfing story by Joe Spring for SB Nation

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Really enjoyed reading last week "The Deadliest Wave" by Joe Spring for SB Nation . It was about the 2013 Billabong Pipe Mast...
Sunday, April 13, 2014

Great Sports Writing - by Michael Rosenberg, Jane Lee & Jeff Pearlman

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Three recent sports stories I particularly liked included a short MLB player profile, a feature on the players from an NCAA men's basket...
Wednesday, April 09, 2014

"Hatching Twitter" by Nick Bilton

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Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton was about some compelling people that came up with a pretty revolutionary business. Reading the book remin...

Esquire essays by Chiarella on helping someone & Jones on doing stand-up

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Two different pieces of writing in the latest issue of Esquire stood out as excellent life-lessons type stories as part of the "83 Thi...

"Grandma Gatewood's Walk" by Ben Montgomery

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Grandma Gatewood's Walk by Ben Montgomery was an interesting tale of one woman's determination and journey as she in 1995 became t...
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...