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she was a pistol, utterly unafraid to speak truth, no matter how ugly, to anyone, no matter how powerful.
Sam Wasson • The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood
On a nearby television, I watched Cleveland sports fans burn the jersey of some basketball player, a self-proclaimed messiah who’d left because winning was hard there and it’d be easier in Florida.
Matt Gallagher • Youngblood: A Novel
like the expert firefighters who suddenly make poor choices when faced with a fire in an unfamiliar structure. Chris
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
By far the best account of Benny Leonard, both of his mystique and of his fighting style, I discovered, is by Budd Schulberg in one of his collections of boxing pieces. Schulberg, to my mind, may be the most underrated of all American authors, the author of the best firsthand account of F. Scott Fitzgerald, in his novel The Disenchanted, and the in
... See moreAdam Gopnik • The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery
In real life people who encountered him often thought he was the most interesting person they’d ever met. She decided against media training—or anything that might make Sam seem less like Sam.
Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
The second kind of friend is somebody you can call when things go horribly wrong—when your life is on the line and you only have one phone call. Who is it going to be? Bill
Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
We may find the same elitism in the art or food world.
William Bloom • The Power of Modern Spirituality
batter,”
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
make no mistake—this letter is bursting with Bill Buckley’s personality from start to finish.