Friday, April 03, 2009

Some Interesting Readings

The Last American Hero is Junior Johnson. Yes!, Tom Wolfe
http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2003/031001_mfe_wolfe_1.html

M, John Sack
http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2003/030905_mfe_sack_1.html

What Do You Think of Ted Wlliams Now?, Richard Ben Cramer http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2003/030905_mfe_cramer_1.html

Death of an Innocent: How Christopher McCandless Lost His Way in the Wilds, Jon Krakauer
http://outside.away.com/outside/magazine/0193/9301fdea.html

Politics and the English Language, George Orwell http://orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit

How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York Jacob A. Riis http://www.bartleby.com/208/

The Coverley Papers from the 'Spectator' by Joseph Addison , Richard Steele and Eustace Budgell http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/cvrpp10.txt

The Death of Rodriguez, Richard Harding Davis http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext02/ntwrc10.txt

The genesis of gonzo: When Tom Wolfe clashed with the New Yorker in 1965, a new style of journalism was born. Marc Weingarten salutes the pioneers who reinvented reporting, Marc Weingarten http://books.guardian.co.uk/extracts/story/0,6761,1561650,00.html

Scott Anderson's "Prisoners of War"

William Langewiesche's "City of Fear"

Michael Paterniti's "The Long Fall of One-Eleven Heavy"