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Stephen Goodwin

Stephen Goodwin is the author of three novels and the nonfiction book Dream Golf: The Making of Bandon Dunes.

The Portrait Master

The Portrait Master

Known for rendering others, a writer turns his attention inward

by Stephen Goodwin | Monday, December 03, 2018
We Can’t Make You Whole Again

We Can’t Make You Whole Again 

by Stephen Goodwin | Monday, June 04, 2018
The Aspirational Golf of Arnold Palmer

The Aspirational Golf of Arnold Palmer

Ode to the man who brought out the goodness in the game

by Stephen Goodwin | Wednesday, October 05, 2016
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Thomas McGuane’s The Longest Silence

A lifelong pursuit of mastery and meaning

by Stephen Goodwin | Monday, August 10, 2015
Resisting Atticus’s Allure

Resisting Atticus’s Allure

On the eve of Harper Lee’s new book release, reconsidering the legacy of To Kill a Mockingbird

by Stephen Goodwin | Monday, July 13, 2015
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The Zen of Short-Story Writing

by Stephen Goodwin | Monday, November 04, 2013
Father’s Day

Father’s Day

What he wished for me and what he taught me

by Stephen Goodwin | Monday, June 10, 2013
Remembering Robert Stone

Remembering Robert Stone

The novelist possessed his characters, and was possessed by them

by Stephen Goodwin | Wednesday, January 14, 2015
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The NASA You Never Hear About

by Isabelle Taft

Fifty years ago, when Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the moon, the moment represented years of work and technical accomplishment. But it also left NASA struggling with a daunting new challenge: figuring out what to do next. Over the years, it has answered this question in part by highlighting the dizzying array of inventions it has inspired—some 1,500 a year. “Besides rocket science itself, perhaps the biggest thing people fail to understand about the agency is how its work has reverberated throughout the world in ways we experience directly every day,” writes Isabelle Taft. “It’s a mark of the agency’s enduring influence that even if we never make it there, we’re already living in a society forged by outer space.”