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Last Dance for ‘Best American Sports Writing’? Only intermission, series maestro Glenn Stout says

Last Dance for ‘Best American Sports Writing’? Only intermission, series maestro Glenn Stout says

by gordie | Nov 10, 2020 | Writing

Great writing is all about rhythm. Glenn Stout, editor of the “Best American Sports Writing” series, has always known that, but the point was driven home to him in a long-ago conversation with the late W.C. Heinz, the writer who in his lifetime gave us the seminal...

A Fond Farewell to Jack Scheuer, Who Made His Corner of the World a Better Place

by gordie | Oct 19, 2020 | Writing

Jack Scheuer spoke his own language, had his own shorthand. Amid a well-played college basketball game — whether in his beloved Palestra or elsewhere in Philadelphia — the long-time Associated Press correspondent might scribble “GH” on the notepad of a...
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