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John McPhee • Draft No. 4
“I was viewed as smart, as a nerd, not as a good guy or a bad guy,” said Sam. “Not really viewed as a person. Smart and inoffensive and maybe not all that human.” Worse, he didn’t totally disagree with his classmates’ assessment. “I didn’t feel misunderstood. I felt like their half-assed guesses were in the right ballpark.”
Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
At Exeter, he would read Sweet Thursday and Cannery Row, John Steinbeck’s lightly fictionalized accounts of marine biologist Ed Ricketts.
John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
Ted Gioia • The Death of the Magazine
It didn’t have to have the power and bulk of a laptop, but it did need a bigger screen than a smartphone.
Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson, Christopher Lochhead, • Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets
To a certain cross section of clerks in that city of rubber stamps, carbon paper, and spindles, he had become a familiar figure, a slender, tall twenty-year-old with nice manners and a rumpled suit, appearing in the middle of a stifling afternoon, looking painfully cheerful. He would doff his hat. The clerk or secretary—a woman, more often than not
... See moreMichael Chabon • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
“I just want to be the man,” he told me, reaffirming his goal of making himself into the NBA’s top player. “I don’t know how I’m going to get there. I just have to find a way.”
Roland Lazenby • Showboat: The Life of Kobe Bryant
But Sammy was not listening. He was flipping slowly through the pages of the first chapter, deciphering the action from the flow of wordless images across the page. Joe was aware of a strange warmth in his belly, behind his diaphragm, as he watched Sammy read his secret book. “I—I guess I could try to tell you—” he began. “It’s fine, I’m getting it
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