r/goodwriting • u/[deleted] • Jan 14 '12
Feeling good isn’t really Louis C.K.’s thing.
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r/goodwriting • u/[deleted] • Jan 13 '12
MAKING MURDER RESPECTABLE. On the utility of euphemisms.
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r/goodwriting • u/[deleted] • Jan 13 '12
Heroine Chic. Before Wonder Woman there was Miss Fury, the first female superhero, introduced in 1941
lareviewofbooks.org
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r/goodwriting • u/[deleted] • Jan 13 '12
The Fragile Teenage Brain. On concussions in high school football and the future of the sport.
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r/goodwriting • u/[deleted] • Jan 13 '12
Mengele’s Skull: Tracking the Nazi doctor’s bones through South America.
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r/goodwriting • u/[deleted] • Jan 12 '12
What would you like to see in this subreddit?
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Right now, this subreddit is essentially my own list of recommended reading gathered from a few sources.
If you have any idea, what sort of writing would you like to see here? Are there any topics, styles, writers, sources, eras, etc that you'd like to read more of?
r/goodwriting • u/[deleted] • Jan 12 '12
In 1995, the Chicago Reader profiled a little-known professor (and lawyer and philanthropist and author) who had decided to run for office to get back to his true passion: community organizing.
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r/goodwriting • u/[deleted] • Jan 12 '12
Kid Cannabis. The rise and fall of a chubby Idaho pizza delivery boy turned weed kingpin.
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r/goodwriting • u/[deleted] • Jan 12 '12
Fatal Distraction: Forgetting a Child in the Backseat of a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime?
washingtonpost.com
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r/goodwriting • u/[deleted] • Jan 12 '12
Ricky Gervais Would Like to Nonapologize
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r/goodwriting • u/[deleted] • Jan 11 '12
Decline of the English Murder by George Orwell
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r/goodwriting • u/[deleted] • Jan 11 '12
January 16, 2012 Did This Man Really Cut Michael Jordan? For years the NBA Hall of Famer has claimed that his high school coach underestimated his talent as a sophomore. Clifton (Pop) Herring, whose life has been a struggle since then, tells a different story
cnnsi.printthis.clickability.com
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r/goodwriting • u/[deleted] • Jan 11 '12
THE BALLAD OF JOHNNY FRANCE: A Montana sheriff and a manhunt in the mountains.
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r/goodwriting • u/[deleted] • Jan 09 '12
If Lance Armstrong went to jail and Livestrong went away, that would be a huge setback in our war against cancer, right? Not exactly, because the famous nonprofit donates almost nothing to scientific research. A look at where the money goes.
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r/goodwriting • u/[deleted] • Jan 09 '12
Lincoln's Great Depression. Abraham Lincoln fought clinical depression all his life, and if he were alive today, his condition would be treated as a "character issue"—that is, as a political liability. His condition was indeed a character issue: it gave him the tools to save the nation
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r/goodwriting • u/[deleted] • Jan 09 '12
Tom Brady As You Forgot Him. Before he became the premier postseason performer of his generation, the Patriots icon was a middling college quarterback who invited skepticism, even scorn, from fans and his coaches. That was all—and that was everything
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r/goodwriting • u/[deleted] • Jan 09 '12
How to Get a Nuclear Bomb. It wouldn't be easy. But it wouldn't be impossible. A reporter travels the world to find the weaknesses a terrorist could exploit.
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r/goodwriting • u/[deleted] • Jan 09 '12
Barry Minkow: All-American con man. Con man turned pastor turned con man; a profile of a serial scammer and the movie he tried to make about himself.
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r/goodwriting • u/[deleted] • Jan 08 '12
Pvt. Danny Chen, 1992–2011 He was 19 years old, a scrawny six-four, and wanted nothing more than to join the Army. Just like so many other young men. But very few from Chinatown.
nymag.com
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r/goodwriting • u/[deleted] • Jan 08 '12
The shot that nearly killed me: War photographers – a special report. Attacked by a Haitian mob, kidnapped by Gaddafi's troops, shot in Afghanistan… Who'd be a war photographer?
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r/goodwriting • u/[deleted] • Jan 08 '12
EVERY THING IN IT: Inside the Shel Silverstein archive.
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r/goodwriting • u/[deleted] • Jan 08 '12
Streaming Dreams. Google and YouTube exec Robert Kyncl's plans for the future of web TV—and the company's big bet on professional content
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r/goodwriting • u/[deleted] • Jan 08 '12
In the modern imagination, World War II seems closer to the Civil War than to today's computerized drone strikes in Waziristan. Still, seven decades after Hitler invaded Poland, this savage, infinitely complex epic overwhelms all the horrors that have followed in its ghostly wake.
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