He also gives workshops, lectures and appears on panels relating to feature writing, researching, reporting and interviewing techniques and other aspects of journalism.
Throughout his reporting career, he has covered issues that would typically be considered metro desk stories, while presenting them in a manner more typical of magazine feature writing.
His interest was in writing a book that brought together the different modes that he wrote in: feature writing, interviews, travel writing, reviews and criticism.
He taught graduate courses that dealt with specialized reporting, feature writing, public affairs reporting, foreign reporting and editorial and column writing.
Traditionally loaded with long-form feature writing and occasionally columns, the annual book is considered a must-read by many sports writers, though the reach of its influence is debatable.
