Sunday, November 30, 2014

Well done stories of deception - by Ronson, Tower & Moore

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Three really well written stories of great deception from the past month included pieces from The Guardian, GQ and the BBC. Written for Th...

Interesting business writing - on Tesla & Google related topics

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Some interesting business writing I've seen lately included two large features from Fortune along with several short pieces of note publ...

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain was a bestselling autobiography from 2000 that covered a l...
Sunday, November 23, 2014

Writing on space travel - by Chris Jones and others

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After growing tired of waiting for the print edition of Esquire to arrive in the mail, I purchased for $2.99 the story "Away" wri...

Writing on actions in the face of danger - by Brooke Jarvis & William Langewiesche

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Two great pieces of recent writing very much dealt in the areas of danger and actions taken in the face of danger, with one about people for...
Monday, November 17, 2014

Great sports writing - by Mooney, Price & Ballard

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Three recent great pieces of sports writing included work by some of my favorite sports writers in  Michael Mooney ,  S.L. Price &  Chri...

Interesting business writing - on Keyssa, Anthony Bourdain & income equality

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Three different pieces of interesting business writing I've seen included stories from Fast Company , New Republic and Businessweek . ...

Skink - No Surrender by Carl Hiaasen

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Skink - No Surrender by Carl Hiaasen was an easy and entertaining read from the humorist that I've now read close to a dozen books fro...
Sunday, November 09, 2014

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

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Being Mortal by Atul Gawande was a remarkable book with the subtitle “Medicine and What Matters in the End” from a doctor and author I...

Boy On Ice by John Branch

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Boy On Ice by John Branch is a solid book that was written out of a lengthy three-part series on the late NHL player Derek Boogaard that ...

Great sports pieces by Powell, Saslow & Parrish along with ESPN video segment on Lauren Hill

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Three recent pieces of great sports writing were from the New York Times , CBS Sports and ESPN , with an additional powerful ESPN video seg...
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...