Articles by Patrick Brown
December 17, 2011
A Year in Reading: Patrick Brown 2
Here was the reading experience I was looking for! I couldn’t wait to get back to it. I read it over breakfast, over lunch. I voluntarily took the bus to work, just so I’d have extra time to read. It was the book that reminded me what a pleasure a great book can be.
September 30, 2011
The Joys and Compromises of Bennett Miller’s Moneyball 2
Take whatever it is that’s important to you – knitting, perhaps, or mountain biking – and then imagine waiting for a feature film about it. Would you be excited or nervous? Or would you simply be dreading how Hollywood would manage to fuck up your passion?
July 28, 2011
Staff Pick: Baseball Playbook 1
“You might have to coach Little League in a few years,” my father told me, handing me a strange, plain book. My son was a week old. It would be at least two years before he would learn to throw a cut fastball (and probably another year or two before he had any real command of the pitch).
January 12, 2011
Staff Pick: FreeDarko Presents The Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History 6
To find truth — and in so doing, beauty — in the game is the height of sportswriting, a genre usually mired somewhere between tawdry gossip and vitriolic hyperbole.
October 29, 2010
Report from the Future of Reading: The Books in Browsers Conference 8
It’s only through seizing the social reading moment, so to speak, that the publishers can hope to wrestle some measure of control back from the tech companies that have come to dominate their industry.
October 11, 2010
Gratuitous: How Sexism Threatens to Undermine the Internet 11
I like following Lisa’s blog because, for whatever reason, her narrative is compelling. Following it is somewhat akin to watching a reality TV show (Not one of the ones where they try to out-dance each other or diet for money, but one that just follows someone’s daily life). She’s my Jersey Shore.
