Friday, March 3, 2017

WRITING A BOOK PROPOSAL ... AND NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT IT

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I recently consulted with an established narrative non-fiction writer on a potential book publishing project. As we talked, he said “I can...
Thursday, January 26, 2017

THAT TIME I REALLY, TRULY, CROSS MY HEART AND HOPE TO DIE VOTED ILLEGALLY

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  I must confess. I knowingly once committed voter fraud. And my co-conspirator was the lunch lady.   In June of 1976 I was 17 ...
Thursday, September 8, 2016

NINE MONTHS AT GROUND ZERO: THE WORKERS WHO LED THE RECOVERY EFFORT AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER

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From Nine Months at Ground Zero [ In 2006 I co-wrote and published Nine Months at Ground Zero with Charlie Vitchers and Bobby Gray, two of...
Friday, September 2, 2016

One Swing: From Big Pfft to Big Papi

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(This column appeared in the July edition of Boston Baseball) They say success has a thousand fathers and failure is in orphan, so I ...
Tuesday, May 10, 2016

GAME OVER

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( from 2003) Funny, how this game grows on you. This spring I followed in a long tradition of paternal guilt and helped coach my daughte...
Monday, May 9, 2016

Save: Baseball

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  by Glenn Stout (From Boston Baseball May 2016)   It is a balm, it is a salve, it can save. This is what baseball does.   Wh...
Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Waiting for It ... or What the Dog Dragged In

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I’m waiting to see it.   We’ve all been waiting to see it. I’ve been looking most of the last month, really.   Every time I get in th...