Bill Donahue is a writer for Outside, Harper’s, Wired, The New York Times Magazine, and more…
Diane Van Deren overcame epilepsy and then became a top ultramarathoner. Did her brain surgery help improve her pain tolerance, or is she just tough?
Runner’s World
Republished in Best American Sports Writing 2012.
Edited by Charlie Butler. Photograph by Evan Hurd.
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The author launches a career as a nordic ski racer.
The Washington Post Magazine
Edited by David Rowell. Photos by Layne Kennedy.
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Riding the bus from Ohio to Washington, D.C., with a contingent of Tea Partiers bound for Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally.
The Washington Post Magazine
Edited by David Rowell.
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Bicycling to the world’s largest statue of Genghis Khan, in Mongolia. Edited by Tim Lavin.
The Atlantic
Edited by Tim Lavin. Photo by Jeffrey Kerby.
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A summer with the college students working in the rustic hikers’ huts of New Hampshire’s White Mountains. Edited by Dennis Lewon.
Backpacker
Edited by Dennis Lewon
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Youngstown, Ohio resurrects itself from a Rust Belt death.
Inc.
Edited by Dan Ferrara. Photo by Greg Miller.
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On a warm summer evening in 1919, a comely young factory worker named Bella Wright set out for a bicycle ride through the country lanes outside Leicester, England. What happened next involved a revolver, a raven, and a shady character on a high-end green bicycle.
Bicycling
Edited by Bill Strickland. Illustrations by Chris Gall.
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American rodeo is taking on a Latin flair.
The Atlantic
Edited by Don Peck. Photo by Alison London.
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The poet Mary Barnard was an extremely private person, and single throughout her entire life. Her verse was spare and a bit cold, devoid of people. So how is that her 1958 book—Sappho: A New Translation—perfectly captured the Greek lyric poet, in all her sublime sensuality? Edited by Chris Lydgate.
Reed Magazine
Edited by Chris Lydgate.
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