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Bradshaw no longer felt the need to go one-on-one with every swaggering young turk who paddled out. He finally seemed able to accept Foo for who he was, warts and all; Bradshaw found himself reacting with amusement to quirks of Foo’s personality that would have triggered apoplectic rage just a few years before.
Jon Krakauer • Classic Krakauer: Mark Foo's Last Ride, After the Fall, and Other Essays from the Vault
The six Mitchell pieces that would eventually constitute his book, The Bottom of the Harbor, a classic of American nonfiction,
William Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
William Vollmann, whose collection The Rainbow Stories
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
The boy had one usable volume of Fisher’s Universal Encyclopedia, so he used it, what else could he do? Better than nothing. Skipping around, wearing it down, revisiting his favorite parts as if it were one of his adventure tales. As a story, the encyclopedia was disjointed and incomplete, but still exciting in its own right.
Colson Whitehead • The Nickel Boys: the new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad
anything to win. As Lyft’s coffers emptied and the founders struggled to
Mike Isaac • Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
In this jackfruit republic that served as a franchise of the United States, Americans expected me to be like those millions who spoke no English, pidgin English, or accented English. I resented their expectation. That was why I was always eager to demonstrate, in both spoken and written word, my mastery of their language. My vocabulary was broader,
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