Load up Instapaper! Conor Friedersdorf just published his annual list of the best nonfiction writing from 2011. The list is so good, I’m not even sure where you should start, but you probably can’t go wrong making an effort to work through all 101 pieces.
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101 Spectacular Nonfiction Stories
by James Furbush on April 19, 2012
Introducing Byliner.com
by James Furbush on June 28, 2011
Another resource for searching, indexing and finding longform journalism stories. Byliner.com has about 30,000 non-fiction articles. The design and UI of the site is pretty great. Nieman Lab has more: Byliner.com is a referral service, not a library. The database contains tens of thousands of article previews: the hed, the deck, the source of the [...]
The 100 Greatest Non-Fiction Books
by James Furbush on June 15, 2011
The Guardian compiles their list of the 100 best non-fiction books ever written. Certainly not definitive by any means, but bookmark it for that moment when you’re looking for something to balance out that crime thriller or sci fi novel. Really glad they included Michael Herr’s Dispatches, which along with Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, [...]
