Monday, October 13, 2014

Businessweek writing - by Bennett, Stone, Vance & Homans

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There's been a number of interesting stories from the past few issues of Businessweek , including one feature and a number of shorter pi...
Wednesday, October 08, 2014

Airplane calamity stories - by Langewiesche & Bissinger

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Two pieces of phenomenal writing I've seen recently were on airplane calamities with one a feature from the October issue of  Vanity Fai...

American Hippopotamus by Jon Mooallem

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American Hippopotamus by Jon Mooallem was an entertaining Kindle single (estimated by Amazon at 71 printed pages) about the seemingly fict...
Monday, October 06, 2014

A Sudden Light by Garth Stein

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A Sudden Light by Garth Stein was an entertaining novel from the author of the excellent 2008 book The Art of Racing in the Rain . Thi...

Atul Gawande essays - on Ebola & end-of-life care

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Noted surgeon and author Atul Gawande had two solid pieces of writing publish recently in The New Yorker and New York Times , respectively....
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...