Friday, October 31, 2014

In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick

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In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick was an interesting nonfiction account of the last voyage of the whaleship Essex and the fig...

Interesting feature writing - by Bissinger, Poulsen & Sager

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Three different recent magazine feature stories were on different topics, but all well written and interesting pieces. The most recent of ...

Stories of technology & the future - on Graphene and Space X

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Two pieces of recent interesting writing very much dealt with future technology and also brought to mind some past stories of note. Posted...
Monday, October 20, 2014

Writers on writing - Gillian Flynn, Hunter S. Thompson & many on Gangrey

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There's a few pieces on the subject of writing that I've seen over the past few weeks and found to be absolutely captivating. The mo...
Sunday, October 19, 2014

Factory Man by Beth Macy

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Factory Man by Beth Macy is an interesting book about offshoring, rural America and where income equality comes from. The book tells t...
Monday, October 13, 2014

Interesting sports pieces - by Wickersham, Anderson & Holmes

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A couple of great pieces of recent sports writing included work from the Boston Globe , ESPN and Bleacher Report . Two Bay Area-centric p...

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...