Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Writing on fascinating people - by Mooney & Weil

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Two recent stories on fascinating people included one on a female explorer and one on a woman's struggle with her sexuality. For the N...

Deep by James Nestor

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Deep by James Nestor was a really interesting book that starts off about freediving and then covers so much more about the ocean and life ...

Vanity Fair articles on Sam Simon & The Shawshank Redemption

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There were two really interesting recent Vanity Fair articles with one on a co-creator of The Simpsons and one on The Shawshank Redemption...
Monday, September 29, 2014

Pieces on writing - about Jeff Pearlman, interviewing subjects & giving yourself permission

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There's been a few different pieces I've seen lately that seem to group together as being about both the want to and how to of produ...
Sunday, September 28, 2014

Great sports writing - by Moehringer, Van Valkenburg & Rushin

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A few different pieces of great recent sports writing included from Sport Illustrated an opus out of the 6oth anniversary issue and from  E...

Interesting business pieces - by Stone, Carr & Ringen

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Three compelling pieces of recent business writing included cover stories from both Businessweek and Fast Company as well as an additional ...

Writing on the CIA and Secret Service - by Leonnig, Burt & Wax-Thibodeaux

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Three recent excellent stories seemed to group together with the CIA being the topic of two of them (one a heroic tale and one simply an int...
Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Shadows in the Vineyard by Maxamillian Potter

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Shadows in the Vineyard by Maxamillian Potter was an interesting tale with the subtitle "The True Story of the Plot to Poison the Wor...

Great sports pieces - by Van Natta Jr., Drehs and Thamel

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There's been a few sports stories I've seen recently that I found to be excellent, including two long profiles for ESPN and a story...
Saturday, September 13, 2014

Interesting Businessweek writing - by Waldman & Vance

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There's been a number of interesting pieces from Businessweek  recently with feature stories out of the September 8-14 issue by Ashlee V...

Great writing on outdoor danger / adventure - by Sundeen, Murphy & Sanchez

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Three really excellent recent pieces of writing that seemed to group together for me were on travel deep into Mexico, attending a wilderness...
Sunday, August 31, 2014

Abundance by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler

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Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think  by X Prize founder and Singularity University co-founder Peter Diamandis and author and ent...

Great sports writing on college football and tragedy

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Two recent pieces of great sports writing about college football included a feature story for SB Nation and book excerpt published in Sports...
Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Writing on interacting with the world - by Brand, Jones, Finkel & Breznican

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There's a few different pieces of great writing I've seen recently that grouped together for me under the subject of how people inte...

Interesting business pieces - on high-end coffee, stealth boats and Twitter

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Three different interesting pieces of business writing I've seen recently ran the gamut of subjects included coffee, a new boat engineer...
Thursday, August 21, 2014

Stories on parenting, education & kids - by Hewitt and Rosin

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Two excellent stories I've seen in the past few months dealt with the topic of kids, how we let them play and have them learn and whethe...
Monday, August 18, 2014

Great pieces from and related to events in Ferguson, MO

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I've found myself riveted lately by what's been going on in Ferguson, Missouri over the past nine days and there's been some ama...
Sunday, August 17, 2014

After Visiting Friends by Michael Hainey

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After Visiting Friends by Michael Hainey was an interesting and at times lyrically written book about Hainey as both a journalist and son ...

No Place to Hide by Glenn Greenwald

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No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald was an interesting book from the writer who...
Saturday, August 09, 2014

Great Esquire writing - by Paterniti & Richardson

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Two sensational pieces from Esquire that I've seen recently including one from an issue that hasn't arrived in the mail yet and one...