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| birth_name = Franz Ira Lidz | ||
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| birth_place = ], U.S. | ||
| | notableworks =''Unstrung Heroes (1991)''<br>''Ghosty Men (2003)''<br>''Fairway To Hell (2008)'' | | notableworks = ''Unstrung Heroes (1991)''<br />''Ghosty Men (2003)''<br />''Fairway To Hell (2008)'' | ||
| | spouse = Maggie Lidz ( |
| spouse = Maggie Lidz (1976–present) | ||
| | children = Gogo, |
| children = Gogo, Daisy | ||
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| * American professional basketball executive | |||
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| '''Franz Lidz''' (born September 24, 1951) is an American writer, journalist and pro basketball executive. | |||
| '''Franz Lidz''' is the author of the childhood memoir ''Unstrung Heroes'' (], 1991), the urban historical ''Ghosty Men: The Strange But True Story of the Collyer Brothers'' (Bloomsbury USA, 2003) and the golf memoir ''Fairway To Hell'' (], 2008). He was a senior writer at '']'' from 1980 to 2007, and a contributing editor at ] ''Portfolio'' (2007–2009). He is a correspondent for '']'', ''S.I.'',<ref></ref> '']'', '']'',<ref></ref> '']'',<ref></ref> '']'' and, since 1983, has written for the '']'' on travel, TV, film and theater. | |||
| A '']'' archaeology, science and film essayist,<ref>, August 9, 1998 – ''The New York Times''</ref><ref>, September 29, 2002 – ''The New York Times''</ref><ref>, September 23, 2009 – ''The New York Times''</ref><ref>, February 14, 2020 – ''The New York Times''</ref><ref>, April 11, 2020 – ''The New York Times''</ref><ref>, June 18, 2021 – ''The New York Times''</ref><ref>, January 30, 2023 – ''The New York Times''</ref><ref>, December 26, 2023 – ''The New York Times''</ref> who originated the archeological column "Lost and Found".<ref>, May 1, 2023 – ''The New York Times''</ref><ref>, June 6, 2023 – ''The New York Times''</ref> He's a former '']'' senior writer,<ref>, – ''Sports Illustrated''</ref><ref name="autogenerated700">, May 6, 2013 – ''Sports Illustrated''</ref>'']'' columnist<ref>, December, 2012 - ''Smithsonian''</ref><ref>, November, 2015 - ''Smithsonian''</ref><ref>, May, 2018 - ''Smithsonian''</ref> and a onetime vice president for the ].<ref>, 2016–'17. (Free PDF download). Use search term "''Franz Lidz''"</ref><ref>, ''Smithsonian''</ref> His childhood memoir ''Unstrung Heroes'' was adapted into ] in 1995.<ref name="autogenerated771">, September 21, 1995 – ''Philadelphia Inquirer''</ref><ref name = nyt>, March 4, 1991 – ''The New York Times''</ref><ref> - ''The New York Times''</ref><ref>, September 3, 1995 – ''The New York Times''</ref> | |||
| ⚫ | == Early |
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| ⚫ | == Early life == | ||
| ⚫ | Lidz was |
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| ⚫ | Lidz was born in ], to Sidney, a Jewish ] who designed the first transistorized portable tape recorder (the Steelman Transitape),<ref>, July 28, 1981 – ''The New York Times''</ref><ref>{{YouTube|ofQ5X67p8E8|"Steelman Transitape portable reel-to-reel tape recorder"}}, 1959</ref> and Selma, a homemaker. His father gave him early exposure to authors like ], ] and ].<ref>, September 13, 1998 – ''The New York Times''</ref><ref name="autogenerated702">, April 8, 1991</ref> | ||
| At age nine, Lidz moved to the ] suburbs. Lidz later went to ]'s high school (Cheltenham, Pa.) and ]'s college (]),<ref name="autogenerated2"></ref> where he was a theater major. | |||
| At age nine, still named Stephen before later legally taking Franz as his first name, he moved to the ] suburbs.<ref name="autogenerated77">, April 7, 1991 – ''Philadelphia Inquirer''</ref><ref>, '']'', May 17, 2015</ref><ref>, '']'', May 27, 2015</ref> Lidz attended high school in ]<ref name="autogenerated1"> – May 10, 1982 – ''Sports Illustrated''</ref><ref name="autogenerated3"> – March 9, 1987 – ''Sports Illustrated''</ref> and college at ],<ref name="autogenerated181"> March 26, 1984 – ''Sports Illustrated''</ref> where he was a theater major.<ref name="autogenerated12">, February 9, 1991 – ''Baltimore Sun''</ref> | |||
| == Career == | == Career == | ||
| Lidz |
Lidz was a novice reporter at the weekly ''Sanford Star'', where he wrote a column and covered police and fire beats. He left Maine to become a crime reporter and write a column called "Insect Jazz" for an alternative newspaper in ].<ref name="autogenerated14">, September 21, 1995 – ''Baltimore Sun''</ref> He later became an editor of ''] Magazine''.<ref>, January 23, 1991 – ''Baltimore Sun''</ref> | ||
| In 1980, he joined the staff of '']'',<ref name="autogenerated36">, December 23, 1985 - ''Sports Illustrated''</ref><ref name="autogenerated89">, May 1, 1989 - ''Sports Illustrated''</ref><ref name="autogenerated6">, December 10, 1990 - ''Sports Illustrated''</ref><ref name="autogenerated7">, May 18, 1992 - ''Sports Illustrated''</ref><ref name="autogenerated65">, November 2, 1998 - ''Sports Illustrated''</ref> even though he had never read the magazine<ref name="philly1">, May 7, 2008 – ''Philadelphia Inquirer''</ref> and had covered only one sporting event in his life – a ] in ], ].<ref name="autogenerated101">, September 24, 2010 – ''AARP: The Magazine''</ref><ref>, September 22, 2010 – ''The New York Observer''</ref><ref name="autogenerated702"/> Lidz remained on the writing staff for 27 years.<ref name="autogenerated128">, August 15, 2016 – ''Sports Illustrated''</ref> In 2007 he jumped to the short-lived business monthly ''Conde Nast Portfolio'', and then '']'' magazine<ref>, December 1, 2011 – ]</ref> before landing at ''Smithsonian'' in 2012. His first feature story in ''The New York Times'', on making the second descent of the ], appeared on January 30, 1983.<ref>, January 30, 1983 – ''The New York Times''</ref> | |||
| In 1980, he joined the staff of ''],'' even though he had never read the magazine<ref name="philly1"></ref> and had covered only one sporting event in his life.<ref name="autogenerated3"></ref> In August that year, he was made the managing editor of the magazine. | |||
| Among his most controversial features are essays on reappraising the ];<ref>, September 20, 2024 – ''The New York Times''</ref> reconsidering ];<ref>, May, 2019 ''Smithsonian''</ref> the effects of climate change on glacial archaeology;<ref>, November 2, 2021 – ''The New York Times''</ref> the Pacific Northwest barred owl cull;<ref>"", April 29, 2024 – ''New York Times''</ref> ];<ref>, July, 2017 - ''Smithsonian''</ref> the 2002 Paris-to-];<ref name="autogenerated1731">, January 21, 2002 - ''Sports Illustrated''</ref> ] and the ]' line of succession;<ref>, August 2, 2007 – ''Conde Nast Portfolio''</ref><ref>, August 7, 2007 – ''New York Observer''</ref><ref>, July 13, 2007 – ''AOL''</ref><ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013160831/http://gothamist.com/2007/08/03/hows_the_boss_s.php |date=13 October 2008 }}, August 3, 2007 – ''Gothamist''</ref><ref>, December 15, 2008 – Bronx Banter</ref> the hijinks of onetime ] owner ];<ref name="autogenerated38">, April 17, 2000 – ''Sports Illustrated''</ref><ref>, April 27, 2014 – '']''</ref><ref name="autogenerated41">, April 30, 2014 – ''Sports Illustrated''</ref> and a ''S.I.'' cover story with ] player ] in which Collins became the first active male in one of the four major North American team sports to announce he was gay.<ref name="autogenerated18">, April 29, 2013 – ''Sports Illustrated''</ref><ref name="autogenerated23">, April 29, 2013 – ''Sports Illustrated''</ref><ref>, April 29, 2013 – ''The New York Times''</ref><ref name="autogenerated67">, April 25, 2023 - ''Sports Illustrated''</ref> | |||
| Lidz's career highlights include a road trip in search of sports on the equator;<ref></ref> 10 days in dog-sledding school<ref></ref>, and a look inside the mind games at the 1987 world chess championship between ] and ] in ], ]. His essay on ] and the ]' line of succession<ref></ref> was called the "scoop of the year" in the 2008 ] collection '']''. | |||
| == Notable works == | == Notable works == | ||
| === ''Unstrung Heroes'' === | === ''Unstrung Heroes'' === | ||
| ''Unstrung Heroes'' is about Lidz's childhood, with his mother, father and his dad's four older brothers.<ref name="autogenerated702"/><ref>, April 20, 2000 – ''The New York Times''</ref><ref name="autogenerated213">, September 25, 1995 – ''Sports Illustrated''</ref> He had previously written about two of the uncles in'' Sports Illustrated''.<ref name="autogenerated13">, January 25, 1987 – ''Sports Illustrated''</ref><ref name="autogenerated19">, December 20, 1982 – ''Sports Illustrated''</ref> | |||
| ''Unstrung Heroes'' chronicles Franz Lidz's childhood, with his father Sidney and four uncles. Sidney is portrayed as the youngest and sanest. Neighbors indulged him as "Crazy Sid, the mildly crackpot inventor." Lidz's four uncles, the Lidz Brothers, are mostly reminiscent of the inspired, raffish ] in their heyday. | |||
| In his review of ''Unstrung Heroes'' in |
In his review of ''Unstrung Heroes'' in ''The New York Times'', ] called the memoir "unusual and affecting ... a melancholy, funny book, a loony tune played with touching disharmony on mournful woodwinds and a noisy klaxon".<ref>, March 4, 1991 – ''The New York Times''</ref> ] of the '']'' likened the memoir to a "miniature '']''. There's not a false moment in the book, and that is high praise indeed."<ref>, February 20, 1991 – '']''</ref> '']'' called ''Unstrung Heroes'': "Astonishing, hilarious, angry, poignant, always pointed."<ref>, February, 1991 – ''Random House''</ref> | ||
| In 1995, ''Unstrung Heroes'' was adapted into ] |
In 1995, ''Unstrung Heroes'' was adapted into ].<ref name="autogenerated771"/> The setting was switched from ] to ], and the four crazy uncles were reduced to an eccentric odd couple. Asked what he thought of the script, Lidz said: "It's very neatly typed".<ref>, September 22, 1995 – ''Entertainment Weekly''</ref> He was unhappy with the adaptation, but was prevented by his contract from publicly criticizing it. "My initial fear was that ] would turn my uncles into ] and ]", he told '']'' magazine. "I never imagined my life could be turned into ]."<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=]|author=Nancy Jo Sales|title=Undone Heroes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6-QCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA58|date=18 September 1995|publisher=New York Media, LLC|page=58}}</ref> In a later essay for ''The New York Times'', he said that the cinematic Selma had died not of cancer, but of 'Old Movie Disease'. "Someday somebody may find a cure for cancer, but the terminal sappiness of cancer movies is probably beyond remedy."<ref>, January 10, 1999 – ''The New York Times''</ref> | ||
| === ''Ghosty Men'' === | === ''Ghosty Men'' === | ||
| ''Ghosty Men'' |
''Ghosty Men'' (2003) is the story of the ]. Lidz has said that he was inspired by the real-life cautionary tales that his father told him, the most macabre of which was the story of the Collyer brothers, the hermit hoarders of ].<ref>, October 26, 2003 – ''The New York Times''</ref> The book also recounts the parallel life of Arthur Lidz,<ref>, November 2, 2003 – ''Newsday''</ref> the hermit uncle of ''Unstrung Heroes'', who grew up near the Collyer mansion.<ref>, May 16, 2004 – ''Philadelphia Inquirer''</ref> | ||
| '']'' |
In his review for '']'', Adam Bernstein wrote, "The Collyer Brothers made compelling reading then, as they do now in this short, captivatingly detailed book."<ref>, January 4, 2004 – '']''</ref> | ||
| === ''Fairway |
=== ''Fairway to Hell'' === | ||
| ''Fairway to Hell'' is a 2008 memoir centering on Lidz' unusual golfing experiences: encountering nudists, llama caddies<ref name="philly1"/> and celebrities like the heavy metal band ].<ref>, November 27, 1986 – ''Sports Illustrated''</ref><ref>, April, 2008 – ''ESPN''</ref> ] reviewed the book on the ] show '']'', saying "His estimable wit is also evident in ''Fairway To Hell''."<ref>, May 30, 2008 – ''Only A Game, NPR''</ref> | |||
| In this comic memoir, Lidz goes in search of golf's soul and goes around the world to the margins of the game. He chronicles his adventures on the links with ], ], and a ] farmer who raises ] as caddies. He reports from a ]n course at which 15 holes are guarded by live ], the Fattie Open (where those weighing under 250 pounds are penalized), and a pitch-and-putt tournament at a ] ].<ref></ref> | |||
| On the ] show '']'', host ] remarked: "Nobody who read ''Sports Illustrated'' during Franz Lidz’s employment there needs to be told that his writing is funny. Happily, his estimable wit is also evident in ''Fairway To Hell''." | |||
| == Collaborations == | == Collaborations == | ||
| Lidz has written numerous essays for ] with novelist and former ] colleague ]. Three of them appear under the title ''Piscopo Agonistes'' in the 2000 collection '' |
Lidz has written numerous essays for '']'' with novelist and former '']'' colleague ].<ref>, November 15, 1998 – ''The New York Times''</ref><ref>, January 30, 2000 – ''The New York Times''</ref><ref>, August 5, 2001 – ''The New York Times''</ref> Three of them appear under the title ''Piscopo Agonistes'' in the 2000 collection ''Mirth of a Nation: The Best Contemporary Humor''. | ||
| ⚫ | Lidz has been a commentator for '']'' on ],<ref>, November 19, 1998 – ''The Tuscaloosa News''</ref> and was a guest film critic on the syndicated '']'', following ]'s passing. The segment did not air.<ref>, April 16, 2000 – ''The New York Times''</ref> He also appeared on ]'s ].<ref name="autogenerated1"/> | ||
| ⚫ | == Personal |
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| ⚫ | == Personal life == | ||
| Lidz lives on a six-acre farm in ]'s Brandywine Valley with his wife Maggie(an author and historian at the ] in ]), two daughters <ref></ref><ref></ref> and an assortment of pets. Lidz, when he was a grad student, married his wife a day after her high school graduation. His daughters Gogo and Daisy Daisy (Didi)<ref></ref> were named after the protagonists in ]. | |||
| Lidz lives in ]<ref>, Fall, 2020 - ''Ojai Quarterly'', pgs. 38-41</ref> with his wife, Maggie, an author and onetime historian at the ] in ].<ref>, January 21, 2010- ''The New York Times''</ref><ref>, February 18, 2014- ''Slate''</ref><ref>, December, 2009 ''Delaware Today''</ref><ref>, February, 2009 '']''</ref> They have two daughters.<ref name="autogenerated118">, June 23, 2003 – ''Sports Illustrated''</ref><ref>, November 21, 2004 ''Los Angeles Times''</ref><ref>, ''Newsweek''</ref><ref>, July 23, 2010 – ''The New York Times''</ref> | |||
| ⚫ | Lidz has been a commentator for ] on NPR,<ref> |
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| == External Links == | |||
| * http://www.portfolio.com/contributors/Franz-Lidz | |||
| * http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/writers/franz_lidz/archive/index.html | |||
| * http://www.gq.com/contributors/frank-lidz | |||
| * http://www.mensjournal.com/the-shark-is-back | |||
| * http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?query=Lidz&d=&o=&v=&c=&n=10&dp=0&daterange=period&srcht=a&year1=1981&mon1=01&day1=01&year2=2010&mon2=02&day2=04&bylquery=Franz%20Lidz&sort=oldest | |||
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American writer (born 1951)
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| Born | Franz Ira Lidz (1951-09-24) September 24, 1951 (age 73) New York City, U.S. |
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| Alma mater | Antioch College |
| Notable works | Unstrung Heroes (1991) Ghosty Men (2003) Fairway To Hell (2008) |
| Spouse | Maggie Lidz (1976–present) |
| Children | Gogo, Daisy |
Franz Lidz (born September 24, 1951) is an American writer, journalist and pro basketball executive.
A New York Times archaeology, science and film essayist, who originated the archeological column "Lost and Found". He's a former Sports Illustrated senior writer,Smithsonian columnist and a onetime vice president for the Detroit Pistons. His childhood memoir Unstrung Heroes was adapted into a Hollywood film of the same title in 1995.
Early life
Lidz was born in Manhattan, to Sidney, a Jewish electronics engineer who designed the first transistorized portable tape recorder (the Steelman Transitape), and Selma, a homemaker. His father gave him early exposure to authors like Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and Eugène Ionesco.
At age nine, still named Stephen before later legally taking Franz as his first name, he moved to the Philadelphia suburbs. Lidz attended high school in Cheltenham and college at Antioch College, where he was a theater major.
Career
Lidz was a novice reporter at the weekly Sanford Star, where he wrote a column and covered police and fire beats. He left Maine to become a crime reporter and write a column called "Insect Jazz" for an alternative newspaper in Baltimore. He later became an editor of Johns Hopkins University Magazine.
In 1980, he joined the staff of Sports Illustrated, even though he had never read the magazine and had covered only one sporting event in his life – a pigeon race in Shapleigh, Maine. Lidz remained on the writing staff for 27 years. In 2007 he jumped to the short-lived business monthly Conde Nast Portfolio, and then WSJ. magazine before landing at Smithsonian in 2012. His first feature story in The New York Times, on making the second descent of the Zambezi River, appeared on January 30, 1983.
Among his most controversial features are essays on reappraising the dodo; reconsidering Neanderthals; the effects of climate change on glacial archaeology; the Pacific Northwest barred owl cull; Hannibal; the 2002 Paris-to-Dakar Rally; George Steinbrenner and the New York Yankees' line of succession; the hijinks of onetime Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling; and a S.I. cover story with NBA player Jason Collins in which Collins became the first active male in one of the four major North American team sports to announce he was gay.
Notable works
Unstrung Heroes
Unstrung Heroes is about Lidz's childhood, with his mother, father and his dad's four older brothers. He had previously written about two of the uncles in Sports Illustrated.
In his review of Unstrung Heroes in The New York Times, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt called the memoir "unusual and affecting ... a melancholy, funny book, a loony tune played with touching disharmony on mournful woodwinds and a noisy klaxon". Jonathan Kirsch of the Los Angeles Times likened the memoir to a "miniature Brothers Karamazov. There's not a false moment in the book, and that is high praise indeed." The Village Voice called Unstrung Heroes: "Astonishing, hilarious, angry, poignant, always pointed."
In 1995, Unstrung Heroes was adapted into a film of the same title. The setting was switched from New York City to Southern California, and the four crazy uncles were reduced to an eccentric odd couple. Asked what he thought of the script, Lidz said: "It's very neatly typed". He was unhappy with the adaptation, but was prevented by his contract from publicly criticizing it. "My initial fear was that Disney would turn my uncles into Grumpy and Dopey", he told New York magazine. "I never imagined my life could be turned into Old Yeller." In a later essay for The New York Times, he said that the cinematic Selma had died not of cancer, but of 'Old Movie Disease'. "Someday somebody may find a cure for cancer, but the terminal sappiness of cancer movies is probably beyond remedy."
Ghosty Men
Ghosty Men (2003) is the story of the Collyer brothers. Lidz has said that he was inspired by the real-life cautionary tales that his father told him, the most macabre of which was the story of the Collyer brothers, the hermit hoarders of Harlem. The book also recounts the parallel life of Arthur Lidz, the hermit uncle of Unstrung Heroes, who grew up near the Collyer mansion.
In his review for The Washington Post, Adam Bernstein wrote, "The Collyer Brothers made compelling reading then, as they do now in this short, captivatingly detailed book."
Fairway to Hell
Fairway to Hell is a 2008 memoir centering on Lidz' unusual golfing experiences: encountering nudists, llama caddies and celebrities like the heavy metal band Judas Priest. Bill Littlefield reviewed the book on the National Public Radio show Only A Game, saying "His estimable wit is also evident in Fairway To Hell."
Collaborations
Lidz has written numerous essays for The New York Times with novelist and former Sports Illustrated colleague Steve Rushin. Three of them appear under the title Piscopo Agonistes in the 2000 collection Mirth of a Nation: The Best Contemporary Humor.
Lidz has been a commentator for Morning Edition on NPR, and was a guest film critic on the syndicated Siskel & Ebert, following Gene Siskel's passing. The segment did not air. He also appeared on David Letterman's show.
Personal life
Lidz lives in Ojai, California with his wife, Maggie, an author and onetime historian at the Winterthur Museum in Delaware. They have two daughters.
References
- "Film; Sorry, Uma, There's Only One Emma", August 9, 1998 – The New York Times
- "Film; The Scenery, Though, He Won't Chew", September 29, 2002 – The New York Times
- "Biblical Adversity in a '60s Suburb", September 23, 2009 – The New York Times
- "Here Lies the Skull of Pliny the Elder, Maybe", February 14, 2020 – The New York Times
- "At the Sourdough Library, With Some Very Old Mothers", April 11, 2020 – The New York Times
- "She Fell Nearly Two Miles And Walked Away", June 18, 2021 – The New York Times
- "What The Ancient Bog Bodies Knew", January 30, 2023 – The New York Times
- "What To Do With A Bug Named Hitler", December 26, 2023 – The New York Times
- "Ancient Romans Dropped Their Bling Down the Drain, Too", May 1, 2023 – The New York Times
- "Put a Bird on It? Ancient Egypt Was Way Ahead of Us", June 6, 2023 – The New York Times
- "Classic Archives: Franz Lidz", – Sports Illustrated
- "Jason Collins", May 6, 2013 – Sports Illustrated
- "Dr. NakaMats, the Man With 3300 Patents to His Name", December, 2012 - Smithsonian
- "Behold The Blobfish", November, 2015 - Smithsonian
- "Britain's Lake District Was Immortalized by Beatrix Potter, But Is Its Future in Peril?", May, 2018 - Smithsonian
- "Detroit Pistons Media Guide: Executive Staff", 2016–'17. (Free PDF download). Use search term "Franz Lidz"
- "Franz Lidz", Smithsonian
- ^ "Lost In Translation", September 21, 1995 – Philadelphia Inquirer
- "Books of The Times; Reality Was Relative and the Relatives Were Nuts", March 4, 1991 – The New York Times
- Search: Franz Lidz - The New York Times
- "Film: Unstrung And Calling The Shots", September 3, 1995 – The New York Times
- "Sidney Lidz – Obituary", July 28, 1981 – The New York Times
- "Steelman Transitape portable reel-to-reel tape recorder" on YouTube, 1959
- "Beginning at the Ending at the Bates Motel", September 13, 1998 – The New York Times
- ^ "From the Editor", April 8, 1991
- "A Writer's Relative Chaos: How Crazy Were Franz Lidz's Uncles? We're Glad You Asked That ...", April 7, 1991 – Philadelphia Inquirer
- "Arn Tellem and Franz Lidz Are Going to the Hall of Fame", Philadelphia, May 17, 2015
- "Franz Lidz & Arn Tellem entering Hall together", Philadelphia Daily News, May 27, 2015
- ^ "Letter From The Publisher" – May 10, 1982 – Sports Illustrated
- "Letter From The Publisher" – March 9, 1987 – Sports Illustrated
- "Letter from the Publisher" March 26, 1984 – Sports Illustrated
- "Lidz weaves a tale of family, life on fringes", February 9, 1991 – Baltimore Sun
- "Odds are, these guys are real characters", September 21, 1995 – Baltimore Sun
- "Redford movie may be filmed locally", January 23, 1991 – Baltimore Sun
- "Good Ol' Charlie Schulz", December 23, 1985 - Sports Illustrated
- "What is Jeopardy!?", May 1, 1989 - Sports Illustrated
- "From Hair To Eternity", December 10, 1990 - Sports Illustrated
- "Meat Bomb", May 18, 1992 - Sports Illustrated
- "She's Got Balls", November 2, 1998 - Sports Illustrated
- ^ "The Sport of Drunken Hairy Scots", May 7, 2008 – Philadelphia Inquirer
- "Gil Rogin Resurfaces", September 24, 2010 – AARP: The Magazine
- "The Virtuoso of the Canorama: Gil Rogin Ran SI at Its Peak, But His Fiction Might Make Him Immortal", September 22, 2010 – The New York Observer
- "Almost Famous", August 15, 2016 – Sports Illustrated
- "Upstairs, Downstairs and In Between", December 1, 2011 – WSJ.
- "The Great Zambezi River Expedition", January 30, 1983 – The New York Times
- "Who’s the Dodo Now? A Famously Extinct Bird, Reconsidered", September 20, 2024 – The New York Times
- "What Do We Really Know About Neanderthals?", May, 2019 Smithsonian
- "As Earth Warms, Old Mayhem and Secrets Emerge From the Ice", November 2, 2021 – The New York Times
- "They Shoot Owls in California, Don’t They?", April 29, 2024 – New York Times
- "How (and Where) Did Hannibal Cross the Alps?", July, 2017 - Smithsonian
- "Off-Road Warriors", January 21, 2002 - Sports Illustrated
- "Baseball After The Boss", August 2, 2007 – Conde Nast Portfolio
- "Portfolio Diagnoses Steinbrenner, but New York Post gives a Second Opinion", August 7, 2007 – New York Observer
- "The Journalist Who Revealed How Ill George Steinbrenner Was", July 13, 2007 – AOL
- "How's the Boss? Steinbrenner Looks Dreadful" Archived 13 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine, August 3, 2007 – Gothamist
- "The Nack: Great Reporting, Vivid Writing", December 15, 2008 – Bronx Banter
- "Up and Down in Beverly Hills", April 17, 2000 – Sports Illustrated
- "Donald Sterling Has Been Lost In Another Century For Some Time", April 27, 2014 – Chicago Sun-Times
- "Sterling's offensive behavior was no secret for years", April 30, 2014 – Sports Illustrated
- "Why NBA center Jason Collins is coming out now", April 29, 2013 – Sports Illustrated
- The story behind Jason Collins' story: How it happened, April 29, 2013 – Sports Illustrated
- "How Sports Illustrated Broke the Jason Collins Story", April 29, 2013 – The New York Times
- "Jason Collins, 10 Years Later: Progress Made, but There's Work to Be Done for LGBTQ Athletes", April 25, 2023 - Sports Illustrated
- "Summer Films: Creature Features; The Ongoing Adventures of Moose and Squirrel", April 20, 2000 – The New York Times
- "To Our Readers", September 25, 1995 – Sports Illustrated
- "My Uncle, The Collector: A Hobbyist on a Shoestring", January 25, 1987 – Sports Illustrated
- "Uncle Harry Never Lost A Fight But He Never Really Fought One, Either", December 20, 1982 – Sports Illustrated
- "Books of The Times; Reality Was Relative and the Relatives Were Nuts", March 4, 1991 – The New York Times
- "The Unlikely Heroics of Unstrung Heroes", February 20, 1991 – Los Angeles Times
- "Unstrung Heroes", February, 1991 – Random House
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