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“The Trading Desk” (31 Longreads in 31 Days, Day 28)
Michael Lewis is a prolific nonfiction writer, author of The Big Short, Liar’s Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side, as well as hundreds of articles for The New Republic, Vanity Fair, and The New York Times. The Trading Desk, which appeared in the March 30, 2003 edition of the New York Times Magazine, was adapted from…
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New media Sports Guy rises as old media sinks
A few weeks ago, New York Times did an interesting profile of one of my favorite writers, Bill Simmons, better known as ESPN’s “Sports Guy.” It includes some interest background on the early days and his rise to becoming a model of a new breed of columnist that broke a lot of the conventional rules…