- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 6, 2013
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What's a first book? You'll know it when you've written it
The definition of a first book is mostly psychological.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Feb 25, 2013
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Considering the majesty and malevolence of tornadoes
In Storm Kings, Lee Sandlin examines the science behind twisters and the scientists who first tried to catch them.
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 15, 2012
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At any rate, plenty of blood was shed
Was the Fort Dearborn massacre a massacre?
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 11, 2010
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Way Down in a Hole
The Spire is just the latest hole to get foreclosed on.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 17, 2010
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Lee Sandlin's Second Book Is in the Works
Lee Sandlin and Pantheon have agreed on the subject of his second book.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 31, 2010
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Memorial Day: "Losing the War"
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 31, 2009
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Mixtape For a Low Dishonest Decade
21 songs for a terrible decade.
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 21, 2009
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A good way to start the week
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 6, 2009
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You were born too soon, I was born too late*
Lynn Becker's tribute to late WFMT program director Norman Pellegrini has me misty-eyed, and wishing I was born earlier.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 8, 2009
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Someone get Jay Smooth a genius grant for awesomeness
The Web's greatest vlogger discusses Asher Roth and race in America.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 23, 2009
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Fly man's best friend's skies
A digression beginning with an airline for pets that ends with the Minutemen's 'Double Nickels on the Dime.'
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 19, 2009
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The return of Liz Armstrong Sucks threads and my plea for sanity
My periodic defense of Liz Armstrong and a jeremiad about literary journalism.
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 17, 2008
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Lee Sandlin heads for the Mississippi
For his next project Lee Sandlin takes on Ol' Man River.
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 21, 2008
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The story about the cat and the airport
Grampa, what was it like before cell phones and Google Maps?
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 16, 2008
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I will make you read this essay
Unfairly neglected? Comparatively speaking, yes.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 5, 2008
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Nick Cherniavsky, Harbin, Manchuria 1924 - Chicago 2007
"They were all dismayed by Rockford. They had been expecting one of America's fabulous cosmopolitan cities, gleaming with wealth and excitement; the train left them in an industrial town deep in a wintry countryside."
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 10, 2007
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A little TLC
Reporting the Reader's layoffs, the New York Times's David Carr offers a good word for John Conroy and investigative journalism. Lee Sandlin adds one for Reader editor Alison True.
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 26, 2007
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Review: "The New Kings of Nonfiction," ed. Ira Glass
On Ira Glass's "The New Kings of Nonfiction."
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 23, 2007
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Lee Sandlin's "Losing the War" anthologized by Ira Glass
Lee Sandlin's great essay, 'Losing the War,' gets anthologized by Ira Glass.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 30, 2007
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After Memorial Day
A moving essay on forgetting about war.
