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A Fan's NotesOver at The Daily Beast, my pal Allen Barra writes about Frederick Exley and his muse, the late Frank Gifford: ...

Thirteen Ways Of Looking At Greg MadduxA record producer friend once told me that Check Your Head, the Beastie Boys' 3rd album, was perfectly realized. That's stuck with me over the years, the idea of being able to achieve something that lives up to your ambition. In a 1978 Playboy Interview, Bob Dylan said: "The closest I ever got to t...

Charles Portis On Motel Life, Lower ReachesHere's a beaut from Charles Portis, published in the Oxford American:...

The Lebowskis Who Might Have Been: Behind The Scenes With The Coens

When I was 25 I got a job with the Coen brothers. I'd worked on three movies as an apprentice film editor and got a gig with them as a personal assistant when they made The Big Lebowski. I was with them for a year, from before pre-production through post-production (when they edited the movie, I tra...

Song For My Father

Several years ago, I eagerly read Adam Hochschild's celebrated book about the early days of the Belgian Congo, King Leopold's Ghost. It is an evocative and engaging read. I was stopped on the subway twice, exactly one week apart, by women who saw me reading the book and who were compelled to tell me...

Learning To Pitch

Head on over the SB Nation's Longform site and check out this lovely story by Rachel Toor about dating the late Bob Welch:...

Learning to Surf Without Feeling

Another story that's worth your time. Erik Hedegaard's memoir piece for Outside:...

The Heroes Of My Youth

More baseball because this is a time for spring and baseball on the brain. Check this out, from one of my favorite writers, a memoir piece by Paul Hemphill about growing up watching the Birmingham Barons:...