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Typewriter Love
I know writers who still use a typewriter. One close pal whose neighborhood experiences power outages several times a year recently wrote a story on a portable. He wanted to get comfortable with it case he loses power and can't use his electric machine. ...
Tyrone Williams Rents A Citi Bike
Kottke delivers. So what else is new?...
Sean Penn Would Have Been A Great Ty Cobb
It's fun to recast movies. After watching Mystic River I wished it could start again with the leads exchanging roles. Harry Dean Stanton would have made a great Billy Martin if The Bronx is Burning was made 15 years earlier. If I could have one wish it would be to see Art Carney reprise his stage pe...
Fame And Obscurity
I found this over at Longform (and if you haven't bookmarked this site by now, whadda ya waiting for?)—Robert Draper's 1992 Texas Monthly story on Cormac McCarthy. I'm not drawn to McCarthy's writing but I'm a sucker for profiles of writers and this is a good one:...
Great Men Die Twice: Muhammad Ali In Decline
Originally published in the June 1989 issue of Esquire. Republished here with the permission of the late author's son, Mark Kram Jr., a wonderful storyteller in his own right. His postscript follows. For a contemporary, but very different, glimpse of Ali, check out Davis Miller's story about his day...
Pride Of The City
Over at SB Nation Longform, Joe DePaolo has a strong piece on the annual baseball game between the NYPD and NYFD:...
Elaine de Kooning: Baseball Fan
Baseball Players by Elaine de Kooning. Ink Wash on Paper (1956)....
Memories Of Terror
I lived in Brooklyn from the fall of '95 to the summer of 2000 and was in my Bronx apartment on the morning of September 11, 2001. But I still had a lot of friends in Brooklyn like my pal who was in his Carroll Gardens apartment. When the second plane hit he walked to his roof to see what was happen...
Vanity Fair Turns 100
Slide on over to Vanity Fair and dig their 100th Anniversary site. ...
Blindsided
Michael J. Mooney's a good one. I remember liking this GQ story he did a couple of years ago:...
The Greatest Comic Book Of 'Em All: Superman Vs. Muhammad Ali
One of the juiciest pop culture sports books ever made is this 1978 gem with art by Neal Adams. ...
The Man In The Ice
Nine years ago, Chris Jones wrote this keeper for Esquire: ...
I Was A Stud High School Baseball Player
Picture of me as a stud high school baseball player, spring on 1985. Look at the classical form, the powerful sense of calm. Textbook isn't it?...
Photographs From the Set of Raging Bull
Time's Lightbox has a photo gallery of Brian Hamill's pictures from Raging Bull. ...
Dolla Dolla Bill Y'all (Just A Guy At Oxford)
Bill Bradley's Princeton days were famously covered by John McPhee. Later, Bradley wrote books himself, notably Life on the Run. Lesser known but still intriguing is Jack Mann's 1966 SI bonus piece on Bradley at Princeton: ...