Saturday, October 08, 2016

Powerhouse by James Andrew Miller

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Powerhouse by James Andrew Miller was an interesting oral history on Creative Artists Agency, the firm that, along with other businesses it...

The Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey

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The Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey  was an interesting read that I heard of from an article by Chris Ballard for Sports Illustrate...

The Hike by Drew Magary

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The Hike by Drew Magary  was the third book, and second novel, I've read from the author who also has written extensively for GQ and De...

Razor Girl by Carl Hiaasen

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Razor Girl by Carl Hiaasen  is the latest installment of fiction by the Florida-based writer on characters in his wacky state and just like...
Saturday, September 24, 2016

Patient H.M. by Luke Dittrich

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Patient H.M. by Luke Dittrich  is a book that dealt not only with an interesting topic, but one in which the author personally invested. ...

Astoria by Peter Stark

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Astoria by Peter Stark tells the story of millionaire John Jacob Astor's attempt to establish a global trade network with a foothold in...
Saturday, August 20, 2016

Hellhound On His Trail by Hampton Sides

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Hellhound On His Trail by Hampton Sides was a great book about the manhunt for James Earl Ray, the killer of Martin Luther King Jr. The boo...

The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant

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The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant was an interesting book from 2005 about the illegal felling of a giant tree off the Northwest coast of ...

The Lost Carving by David Esterly

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The Lost Carving by David Esterly was a solid book about a year Esterly spent restoring wood carvings damaged in a 1986 fire at Hampton Cou...
Sunday, July 10, 2016

Not Fade Away by Laurence Shames and Peter Barton

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Not Fade Away by Laurence Shames and Peter Barton was an excellent book from Barton, former CEO of Liberty Media, co-written with writer a...

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

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H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald was about the author training a goshawk after the recent death of her father and a creative and almost ly...
Sunday, July 03, 2016

Tribe by Sebastian Junger

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Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger was a solid book about the important topic of how divided as a society we can be. ...

The Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck

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The Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck was an entertaining and in many cases heart-warming road trip book about Buck and his brother Nick traveli...
Saturday, June 04, 2016

Pieces to make you smile - by Mooallem, Frias & Posnanski

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Three pieces of writing from over the past few weeks struck me as really well done and smile-inducing, with one from the New York Times Maga...

Neither Snow Nor Rain by Devin Leonard

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Neither Snow Nor Rain by Devin Leonard  was a really interesting book with the subtitle A History of the United States Postal Service . I...
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...