What I’ve Been Reading the Past 4 Months.
Some of the best long-form articles I’ve come across recently. SportsFeat is responsible for more sports stories making it into this iteration, and as ever, The New Yorker and NYTimes have a disproportionate amount of representation (because I’m a wannabe snob).
- Steve Jobs: The Beginning. I’m pretty torn up, like many others, about the loss of Jobs. He was a very complex guy and this article does a great job illuminating a lot of what made him so unique.
- The Hero No One Knew. Sad profile of Walter Payton post his Hall of Fame career.
- The Rick Perry Hustle. Larry McMurtry eviscerating and obliterating. Love it.
- Back of All Trades. Great profile of Baylor’s Robert Griffin III.
- The Day That Damned the Dodgers.
- The Fierce Intimacy of Tennis Rivalries.
- Coach Fitz’s Management Theory. Michael Lewis is apparently developing a story about Coach Fitz for the silver screen. I’d be there day 1.
- The Art of Winning an (Even More) Unfair Game. Follow-up to the enigmatic Billy Beane and Moneyball.
- Between the Seams. Bo Jackson’s baseball career and how we’ll never see another athlete like him.
- The Journalist and the Spies. Pakistan is the problem.
- What if the Secret to Success Is Failure?
- ?uestlove. 15-year retrospective on The Roots’ drummer and hip-hop historian.
- It’s the Economy, Dummkopf! Michael Lewis’ most famous piece of recent Disaster Travel Journalism, this about the scheisse-obsessed Germans.
- California or Bust. More Michael Lewis Disaster Travel Journalism.
- Planning and Executing the Mission to Get Bin Laden. The New Yorker’s essential report on killing the world’s biggest supervillain.
- “The Iron” by Henry Rollins. Oldie but goodie. Come back to this every time I get on a health jag.
- Colson Whitehead on the World Series of Poker. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4. Such a talented writer.
- How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet.
- Sheryl Sandberg and Male-Dominated Silicon Valley. Big, big fan of hers.
