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William Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Some editors are put off by brilliant but idiosyncratic manuscripts and some, such as Perkins, are enticed by them.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
That was the great promise of the pirate’s life: You could break free from the cycle of servitude and poverty. But you could only do it if the spoils were equitably shared.
Steven Johnson • Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
The Nadir seemed to have a whole battalion of wiry little Third World guys who went around the ship in navy-blue jumpsuits scanning for decay to overcome.
David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
shores of Africa.
James Nestor • Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
A quixotic intellectual troubadour, he has prosecuted a series of discrete visions united only by a potent sense of curiosity and a provocative optimism.
John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
Almost from the outset, Hill found his maritime venture, which proved so dissimilar from his railroad experience, a source of unending frustration.
Michael P. Malone • James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest (The Oklahoma Western Biographies Book 12)
he sent someone “to look around and see things that weren’t being reported—not just what they were yelling about.”
Shane Parrish • Clear Thinking
As a plucky startup, YouTube could take all sorts of risks that Google, a public company with a big target on its back, could not.