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Paintings By Kids
There's some cool artwork by kids in this book by Yankee outfield Curtis Granderson....
Talk Is Cheap
I love to talk but when it comes to writing I've learned that you can talk a story out before you’ve finished–or even started–writing. Some talking is good because it helps formulate your thinking but it can go too far....
GQ
Up North Trips gives us some of GQ's basketball covers. I remember most of these issues well—from our man Peter Richmond's heyday at the magazine. ...
Do You Quit A Book You Don't Like Or Do You Keep Reading?
I’ve never had the desire to finish a book that I don’t enjoy. If a book doesn’t grab me in the first 20 or 30 pages, I’ll put it down. No guilt. But I’ve also put down books after a hundred pages, books I admire, simply because I’m distracted. It’s me, not the book....
The End Of The Affair
I haven’t read anything by Graham Greene in a long time but he came to mind when I read about this book by Pico Iyer. Check out this excerpt from The Los Angeles Review of Books:...
Breaking Training
Josh Wilker explains his love for The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training:...
And The Nobel Prize Goes To...
Last week Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize for literature. ...
Out My Window
Katerina Cizek’s Out My Window project is seriously dope. ...
Deez Nuts
This is fun. Thanks to Mark Drew for making 'em and Ego Trip for pointing 'em out....
Hot Rods In HDR
From the cool design site, Abduzeedo, dig this post on Hot Rods in HDR. ...
A Tribute to Bill Eppridge
Dig SI's tribute to the late Bill Eppridge. ...
Frank Sinatra Has a Cold: Annotated
Over at the Neiman Storyboard, Elon Green talks to Gay Talese about Talese's classic Esquire story, "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold." ...
Sir Bam Bam
There are 23 large iron lamps affixed to the ceiling. The tints of neon light they throw down into the indoor batting cage, a concrete room tucked deep into the guts of Yankee Stadium, vary according to when they were last smashed out by errant balls and replaced. Under these lights, largely out of ...
Every James Bond First Edition
From The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. ...
Daniel Negreanu: Card Stud
Daniel Negreanu is a vegetarian, without much interest in food. ''I ate two days ago'' is the kind of thing he says. His disdain for food is a reaction to his mother, who is obsessed with food. Mommy, as he calls her, likes to serve people food, then sit down and smile at them as they eat. When Negr...
Furry's Blues
“By now there must be in the world a million guitar virtuosos; but there are very few real blues players. The reason for this is that the blues–not the form but the blues–demands such dedication. This dedication lies beyond technique; it makes being a blues player something like being a priest. Virt...
Vintage OC And MC Serch Freestyle: Step Into The O Zone
Man, Serch could really bring it. And this is when he helped introduce the world to OC. From the Stretch and Bob WKCR show. ...