Some good articles - by no means read them all!

http://www.kk.org/cooltools/the-best-magazi.php - for the list

I once read a book (honest ) called 'Into Thin Air' by Jon Krakauer - easily one of the best books I've ever read (along with Harrington on Holdem ).

Its about an expedition to climb Everest which went wrong.

An article by Jon about the expedition is included in that list - fascinating reading...

*** Jon Krakauer, "Into Thin Air." Outside Magazine, September 1996

Very controversial expedition. Excellent book - will have a look at the article. Suspect it may have been written as a response to some of the criticism he got from (Boukreev I think).

I noticed about 4 by the amazing David Grann, one my favourite writers for The NewYorker, which I subscribe to and read religiously every week. The latest one about the art world is a killer. Great writing, great investigation.

Is anyone reading these stories? They are incredible. I knew they were excellent instantly because I had already read some of The NewYorker ones. I've read about 5 more now from this link and can't stop. If you are brave and appreciate great writing and research and an incredibly deft touch, read Gene Weingarten's 2009 Washington Post story, Fatal Distraction. It won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. A warning. It will tear your heart to pieces.
Thank you Knulpuk. This is an absolute goldmine of great journalism that every thinking, feeling person should explore. I suspect Fatal Distraction will haunt my soul forever.

Reading one a day over lunch.

Frank Deford, "The Boxer and the Blonde." Sports Illustrated, June 17, 1985.

Incredible bit of writing

Orchid Fever by Susan Orlean The New Yorker January 23, 1995 is wonderful: starts out:

John Laroche is a tall guy, skinny as a stick, pale-eyed, slouch-shouldered, and sharply handsome, in spite of the fact that he is missing all his front teeth. He has the posture of al dente spaghetti and the nervous intensity of someone who plays a lot of video games.....

He and his wife later separated, which he says now was because he realized that she could sit through an entire Grateful Dead album and he could not.

Reminds me very much of Peter De Vries who have recently discovered (wrote for the New Yorker)...

She was about 25, and naked except for a green skirt and sweater, heavy brown tweed coat, shoes, stockings . . .

Wonderful stuff. You might be interested to know that the Susan Orleans feature eventually turned into a book and was then transformed into one of the funniest and craziest films I've ever seen, called Adaptation, starring Meryl Streep as Orleans. The film came out in 2002 from the same creative team that did Being John Malkovitch a few years earlier. Writer Charlie Kauffman (Played by Nicholas Cage in Apaptation) and director Spike Jonze basically made a film about Kauffman's torturous attempt to turn Orleans' book into a Hollywood film and how the entire project became transformed into something wild in the process. It may not be for everyone but I laughed myself senseless.
I have read a lot of Frank Deford, another amazing writer. I will tackle it next. We may be on our own on this quest mate but there is a Hell of a lot of good reading ahead for us.