Sunday, May 22, 2016

Interesting business writing by Oldham, Leonard, Brustein & Brodesser-Akner

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There was few different interesting stories from Bloomberg Businessweek lately, with two features and two short pieces to note here. The l...
Saturday, May 21, 2016

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain

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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain was an entertaining novel about the surviving members of Bravo Squad, U.S. soldiers ba...
Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Great writing on the effects of violence

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Some amazing writing I've seen recently detailed people dealing with the effects of violence, with three of the pieces around guns and o...
Friday, April 22, 2016

Great sports stories - by Thompson on Woods & Boyd on Palmeiro

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Two amazing recent sports stories both dealt with subjects that have gone through profound (and at least in part self-caused) difficulties, ...

The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson

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The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson was an entertaining book about traveling throughout his adopted Britain, twenty years after doi...
Thursday, February 25, 2016

What We Talk About When We Talk About God by Rob Bell

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What We Talk About When We Talk About God by Rob Bell is a book I was interested to read after I thought excellent Bell's book Love Win...
Sunday, January 31, 2016

Best writing linked to in 2015

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I didn't post as often in 2015 as in past years, but there were still some great pieces of writing I linked to and following on to my se...
Friday, January 29, 2016

The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz

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The Girl in the Spider's Web by  David Lagercrantz was an excellent work of fiction as the fourth book in the Millennium Series starte...
Wednesday, January 06, 2016

Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

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Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert was an excellent read with the best-selling author's ruminations on a creative life. She covers a lot of...
Thursday, December 31, 2015

Ghost Soliders by Hampton Sides

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Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides was a really good book with the subtitle  The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission ....

Interesting business writing - on hacking medical devices, building a self-driving car, and the Tesla Gigafactory

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Three different pieces of business writing that struck me as interesting recently included an important look at medical device security and ...
Monday, December 21, 2015

Natural Born Heroes by Christopher McDougall

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Natural Born Heroes by Christopher McDougall is his latest book, following on the heels of Born to Run from 2011, and I enjoyed Born to R...
Friday, December 18, 2015

Great stories on life & death - by O'Connor, Dubois, & Rosin

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Three different pieces of writing I've seen over the past few weeks grouped together as being very profound and well written. The two ...
Saturday, December 12, 2015

Writers on writing - with pieces by Saunders, Murakami, Jones, Van Valkenburg & Fagone

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There's been a number of excellent pieces I've seen over the past couple of months around the craft of writing, including ones on be...
Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Four pieces of excellent writing - by Follman, Kristof, Fagone, and MacGregor

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A few pieces of great recent writing to note here included ones that are important, uplifting, disconcerting, and just plain smile-inducing....
Sunday, November 22, 2015

Great feature story by Eli Saslow on a high school football death

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There was really an amazing story in the latest ESPN The Magazine with Eli Saslow writing "Why Him? Why Me?" on a recent death du...
Monday, October 12, 2015

Pitching Around Fidel by S.L. Price

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Pitching Around Fidel by S.L. Price was an interesting book from 2000 with the subtitle A Journey Into the Heart of Cuban Sports . Price i...
Sunday, October 11, 2015

The Martian by Andy Weir

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The Martian by Andy Weir was a really enjoyable novel, with the below description taken from it's Amazon page. The book was def...

Great sports writing - on Aaron Rodgers, Chris Bosh, Mark Davis, and Rodney Culver

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There were a few really good pieces of sports writing to note here that I've seen over the past few weeks, including two features from S...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid

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How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid was a novel that traces through someone's life born into third-world poverty. ...