The awesome editors at Esquire just put together a link of “The Seven Greatest Stories in the History of Esquire Magazine… in Full” which is exactly what it sounds like. If you click on the link above you can get to the full versions of these articles. The links in the list below just go [...]
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Right now I’m working on a feature story about independent bookstores and how they are preparing for the holiday shopping season. One owner I talked to is going into her first holiday season owning her store and said she’s excited, but also nervous because she’s not sure what to expect. Another told me he’d been [...]
On Tuesday I asked what one book you would have the presidential candidate read before Inauguration Day. I thought that was a pretty clever question, but I guess I wasn’t the first one to think of it, and there are actually a lot of presidential reading sorts of things happening. Here’s just a few: Scott [...]
I voted for Barack Obama yesterday, but without the enthusiasm so many other people did. When I went to the polls yesterday, I considered not voting for president because I just didn’t care enough about either candidate. After Obama gave his acceptance speech last night, a friend and I walked down to State Street (a [...]
The NYT Sunday Book Review published a great essay by Jon Meacham this weekend called “How to Read Like a President.” Meacham argues that you can tell a lot about a person based on the books they read, and that presidential candidates are no exception. So what do the two candidates like to read? John [...]
Just last week I came across the blog Black Cover, a site “dedicated to the search for the perfect little black notebook.” This is a site after my own heart, as I frequently go on quests to find the perfect version of anything, including office supplies. It took me three years and countless planners to [...]
You’ll have to excuse me while I do a teeny bit of (mostly) shameless promotion. My dear friend Amanda from my undergrad university was recently hired as an Editor for a new video gaming website, Green Pixels. The site launched last week week, and I am so impressed with it. It looks to be a [...]
Last week Neil Gaiman was out and about reading an excerpt of his new book The Graveyard Book in St. Paul. Fellow book blogger Kim L. at Bold. Blue. Adventure. got to see him and wrote a great post about it here. A friend of mine, Ben Wheeler, also attended Gaiman’s speech and was kind [...]
When I moved to Madison in August, one of the things I got most excited about the seventh annual Wisconsin Book Festival. The theme this year is “Changing Places” — I don’t know what exactly that means, but I’m sure it can be interpreted pretty broadly. Over four days — October 15 – October 19 [...]
A friend sent me this link to a Slate article called “Diagramming Sarah” by Kitty Burns Florey. A summary just doesn’t do this story justice, so I’m going to quote a big chunk of it. Click on the link to read the full story — it is well worth your time. ——— “Other Palinisms are [...]
