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The Friday Night Solution
Jeffrey Zaslow • The Last Lecture
“tough and competent.”
Jeffrey Kluger • Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
I had little else to do but show up for cocktails at five in the evening.
John McPhee • Draft No. 4
The sequestering of the big Butte market was duck soup for the aggressive Hill and allowed him to play the role that would make him a legend: forcing competitiveness on a rigged market.
Michael P. Malone • James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest (The Oklahoma Western Biographies Book 12)
friend over in Fayette County.”
Donald Ray Pollock • The Heavenly Table
What Makes Sammy Run? by Budd Schulberg,
Ryan Holiday • Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent
She mailed the marked-up copy to Harold Ross, the founding editor, and Ross was said to have bellowed. What he bellowed was “Find this bitch and hire her!”
John McPhee • Draft No. 4
His nonfiction persona was, as Wallace told an interviewer, “a little stupider and shmuckier than I am.”
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
Joseph Mitchell both described and conjured the dazzling world of New York when it was really New York — the characters, the grit, the language.