Sports Illustrated's Peter King. The guy writes about training camps and how much he loves traveling and meeting people; this edition of Monday Morning QB might as well been a travel profile about middle America. He even mentions how he gets paid doing what he loves. What a job.
An illuminating article on one woman's hustle by Novella Carpenter . Can you think of a better name for a writer? In her blog, she experiments with consuming only food produced in her "mini-farm"...in Oakland. Farming must be hard enough in a natural landscape, but to produce food in an urban environment? An insightful experience.
For California magazine, author Pico Iyer profiles Cuba, vibrant and rife with contradictions in this modern day. Something about the prose really appeals to me. Perhaps it is the article's subject, an "exotic" country. Perhaps it is how Iyer "humanizes" Cuba, endows the country with personality through its citizens, its people (he helps an individual gain political asylum in the US, only to see him delve into underground elements here). I'm not really sure, but something about how Iyer travels, how he manages to pick up things here and there, is really enticing. I hope to pick up his other works to see if he maintains this prose in longer works.
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