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Sk8 the St8s skateboarding road trip comes to an end

Posted on 08/12/2011 by Neal

[Note: this is the final post from my Sk8 the St8s blog, co-sponsored by CBS, chronicling my fathers-and-sons, cross-country skateboarding summer road trip, which I hope will form the basis of a book about the history and culture of skateboarding.] … Continue reading →

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A Hero & A Father

Posted on 06/19/2011 by Neal

For father’s day, I’m sharing this link to one of my favorites stories – a piece I wrote for The Baltimore Sun in 1999 about Vice Adm. William Lawrence, a test pilot and former POW, and his astronaut daughter, Wendy. … Continue reading →

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“A Day at the Office”: authors Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan & Peter Mountford

Posted on 06/14/2011 by Neal

Cheryl Tan and I worked together nearly fifteen years ago at the Baltimore Sun. She’s since worked as a fashion writer at the Wall Street Journal and recently published her first book, A Tiger in the Kitchen. During her recent … Continue reading →

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Tribute to legendary ski film director Warren Miller

Posted on 06/06/2011 by Neal

*UPDATE (June 7): This event has been postponed due to a scheduling glitch. It is going to be rescheduled for some time in the fall. I’ll keep you posted. This Wednesday at 7pm, I’ll be on stage at Seattle’s Benaroya … Continue reading →

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Review: A Young Man’s Guide to Late Capitalism

Posted on 04/05/2011 by Neal

A Young Man’s Guide to Late Capitalism by Peter Mountford My rating: 4 of 5 stars In one chapter of my forthcoming biography of Robert Ripley, I recount the eccentric, world-traveling “Believe It or Not” cartoonist’s months-long journey through South … Continue reading →

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Ireland and the Irish: sentences from Michael Lewis

Posted on 03/25/2011 by Neal

Last night, while drinking Guinness and reading Pete Dexter’s Spooner, I took a break to catch up on that menacing, guilt-inducing stack of magazines. I got pulled into a Vanity Fair piece by Michael Lewis, and was quickly reminded why … Continue reading →

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My interview with author Karen Abbott

Posted on 03/21/2011 by Neal

I’d briefly met Karen a few years ago in Asheville, NC, during her tour for her first book, Sin in the Second City. She visited Seattle last month to talk at Elliott Bay Book Co. about her new book, American Rose, … Continue reading →

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My interview with Jonathan Evison

Posted on 02/08/2011 by Neal

I’m embarrassed to admit that this footage of Evison is more than a year old. It sat on digital ice while I finished work on my Robert Ripley biography. Now that my book is done, and Evison’s latest is out … Continue reading →

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Sipping moonshine with Warren Etheredge

Posted on 10/26/2010 by Neal

I’m on the other side of the lens for a change in this recent interview with Warren Etheredge, on his cool show “The High Bar.” We sipped two kinds of moonshine I brought along and talked about NASCAR, the South, … Continue reading →

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Paris Review author interviews, now online = gift to writers

Posted on 10/23/2010 by Neal

In my basement office, among the rows of books about writing, are three well-thumbed volumes of author interviews collected from The Paris Review, whose issues have featured one or two interviews since the magazine’s founding in 1953 (by a group … Continue reading →

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