Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Best non-sports writing linked to in 2014

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Following up on my just posted best sports writing linked to in 2014 is the below listing of the best non-sports (and non-business) writing...

Best sports writing linked to in 2014

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I realized recently that while I did put together a book of the best business writing I've read through 2014 , I hadn't done any com...
Monday, March 23, 2015

Mooallem & Titus pieces - on end of life decisions & dealing with depression

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It's really not with the intent of closely linking them together, but two great pieces of writing I've seen recently were "Deat...

Dead Wake by Erik Larson

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Dead Wake:  The Last Crossing of the Lusitania  by Erik Larson was a good book on the British ocean liner that was sunk by a German U-boat ...
Monday, March 16, 2015

Interesting business writing - on Sirius & Howard Stern, Disney & MagicBands and Ikea & expansion

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Three interesting pieces of recent business writing covered covered subjects across the corporate world with stories on Disney, SiriusXM, an...
Thursday, March 12, 2015

Great GQ feature stories - by Paterniti & Flynn

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There's two exceptional features I've seen recently from GQ Magazine, one by Michael Paterniti and one by Sean Flynn . The Patern...

Writers on writing - by King, Sager, Jones, Sherman & Keohane

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Lately on the subject of writers and writing, there's been some great stuff I've seen lately that feels to group into a couple of ca...
Friday, March 06, 2015

How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson

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How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson was an interesting book with the subtitle  Six Innovations That Made the Modern World.  Johnson in th...

Great sports writing - by Moehringer, Saslow & Anderson

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Three great recent pieces of sports writing included two from ESPN and one from Bleacher Report. The larger of the two ESPN features is 12...
Saturday, February 28, 2015

Bold by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler

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Bold by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler was a follow up to their 2010 book Abundance (which I wrote about last year ) and it's note...

Interesting business writing - on Ive from Apple, Hoover from Product Hunt & solid business advice

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Some recent interesting business writing ran the gamut in terms of types of writing with the three pieces to note here being a blog post, a ...
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Writers on writing & pieces about New York Times writer David Carr

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There's been a number of great things I've seen recently on writers and writing, with a majority of them related to New York Times w...

The Night of the Gun by David Carr

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The Night of the Gun by David Carr  in 2008 was a remarkable memoir of addiction, single parenting and a career in journalism from the New ...
Monday, February 16, 2015

Fast Company & Businessweek writing

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Some particularly interesting recent business writing included pieces from Fast Company Magazine as well as Businessweek .   The March 201...

Great sports writing - by Rosenberg, Drehs, Tomlinson & O'Neil

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Four great recent pieces of sports writing included a feature for Sports Illustrated and three for ESPN. The story for SI was "A woma...
Sunday, February 15, 2015

Daily Rituals by Mason Currey

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Daily Rituals by Mason Currey was an interesting book that he compiled on the creative process, or daily routine of creative work, employed...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Acts of Creation by Walt Harrington

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Acts of Creation  by Walt Harrington was a cool book with the subtitle "America's Finest Hand Craftsmen at Work." The short wo...

Pieces by Chiarella on a bartender, Lukach on mental illness, and Junod on Stephanie Lee

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Three stories to post on here included a profile of a longtime bartender at a Chicago landmark and two incredibly poignant and painful to re...
Friday, February 06, 2015

Pieces on writing - about a Justin Heckert story, thoughts from Wright Thompson & a speechwriter profile

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Three different great pieces I've seen recently about the craft of writing included a story annotation with the author of the feature, a...

Great sports writing - by Graff, Jenkins, Reiter & Wickersham

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My favorite recent sports pieces covered a number of different subjects: a skydiver, NBA player that's improved both professionally and ...