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Nonfiction Work

A Selection of Bryan's nonfiction writing

  • Chewy Is Having A Breakout Year During the Pandemic
    18 November 2020
  • The Humbling of Exxon
    30 April 2020
  • How 3M Doubled Mask Production to Fight the Coronavirus
    25 March 2020
  • The Biggest Fan of Trump's Steel Tariffs Is Suing Over Them
    12 February 2020
  • The Gazillion-Dollar Standoff Over Two Trading Towers
    08 March 2019
  • How One Tiny Canada Town Defines Hockey
    13 February 2019
  • Business for (Crash) Dummies
    25 October 2018
  • How A Lousy Chinese Company Saved Volvo
    24 May 2018
  • The Nursing Home Operator Saving the Iron Range
    18 March 2018
  • Caterpillar, a Whistleblower, and a $600 Million Tax Headache
    01 June 2017
  • The Best Writer I'll Ever Know
    28 May 2017
  • The Cottage We Loved and Lost
    24 May 2017
  • Donald Trump Saves a Furnace Plant
    29 March 2017
  • The Fake Factory That Pumped Out Real Money
    13 July 2016
  • The Incredible Rise and Final Hours of Fracking King Aubrey McClendon
    10 March 2016
  • For $725 Million, a Texas Ranch the Size of a Nation
    21 July 2015
  • On Further Review, the Zebras are Biased
    9 January 2015
  • An Alleged Rape in Iowa
    09 December 2014
  • Twilight of the Pizza Barons
    03 July 2014
  • The Bone Factory
    09 September 2013
  • The Dawn of the Weed Vending Machine
    13 May 2013
  • The Turkish King of Greek Yogurt
    31 Jan 2013
  • The Doc Turned Trader Turned Felon
    27 Nov 2012
  • The Man Who Bought North Dakota
    19 Jan 2012
  • 170,000 Miles of Memories
    10 May 2008
  • How Chicago Cornered The Market on Big Ten Bars
    18 Nov 2006
  • Hockey: A Different Kind Of Star Athlete
    10 Dec 2005
  • A Good Day on the Pond
    20 Feb 2004
  • War Stories: The Lieutenant and the Holocaust Victim
    25 Nov 2003
  • Watered Down: How Florida State University Stumbled In Its Attack on Alcohol Abuse
  • An Outhouse on Skis May Seem Strange, But These Are Yoopers
    05 Mar 2003
  • The Mystery of the Mac ‘n’ Cheese
    14 Feb 2003
  • The Manistee Deerslayer
    05 Dec 2001
  • Five Lives: A September 11 Chronicle
    11 Oct 2001
  • Solo Acts: Who’s Yahoo’s CEO? Who Cares! Surely Not One-Stock Day Traders
    07 Dec 1999
  • Motown’s Field of Dreams Closes — With His Childhood Buddies, A Fan Bids Farewell To an 88-Year-Old Stadium
    30 Sept 1999
  • A Linebacker’s Last Tackle
    30 Dec 1998
  • On the Road with the Stanley Cup
    06 Sept 1996

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