DFW HOYA
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Post by DFW HOYA on Oct 21, 2011 10:20:58 GMT -5
Bill Simmons' Grantland.com web site has high aspirations but often doesn't meet them--long-form journalism is an anchronism in the Twitter era and it takes a certain patience to write like that. Still, when they run a classic like this, it's a great read. www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7115592/silent-season-hero |
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SirSaxa
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Post by SirSaxa on Oct 25, 2011 11:26:08 GMT -5
DFW, thanks for posting that link. It took me a while to find the time to sit and read the piece, but it was very well worth it. Truly an outstanding piece of writing. The tag to the story contains a better description that I ever could: Talese's friend David Halberstam called the DiMaggio profile the best magazine story he'd ever read.
The great W.C. Heinz was impressed not merely by the writing but the degree of difficulty: the intractability of the subject, who had been largely opaque to the press over the years. Of DiMaggio, Heinz said, "I knew how difficult he could be, and how coldly he could treat writers and how he could cut them off if he was displeased. So doing that piece couldn't have presented a tougher challenge. |
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