How to win at interviews
Biz Stone on how he faked it and Google hired him. One genius […]
Category: readings
How belief is not like sudoku
I interviewed Amy-Jill Levine in advance of the release of her new book, […]
A quick take on The Longest Day
I re-read The Longest Day recently. I read it as history the first […]
Tilting at the windmill of reading a book
For a classic novel, Don Quixote gets downright cartoonish. It starts with a […]
Silicon Valley funds Botox babies
One unexpected quirk of a Boston tech ecosystem I’m writing about for Boston […]
The tyranny of place
This piece in the Boston Globe about two technology incubators trying to make […]
The power and glory of Graham Greene
I spent the last quarter of the year reading and re-reading works for […]
Blood runs cold then, now
I’ve been reading Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. That book, published in 1965, […]
Where today’s nonfiction greats got their start
During my Nieman year (2010-2011) I was surprised to see that there was […]
The roots of narrative non-fiction
I’m leading a dialogue on the roots of nonfiction narrative as a Harvard […]