Profile Readings for Week of April 26

Here are profiles we'll be discussing in class the last two weeks. I'll get to them roughly in this order:

"Nails Never Fails," a profile of former ballplayer Lenny Dykstra.

My profile of Don Schrader. NOTE: You'll find the main story itself after several sidebars. The story proper begins with the quote from Thoreau.

My profile of Jim Villanucci, the radio guy. NOTE again: The story proper starts with the line: Jim Villanucci is where he wants to be.

And there's this profile of a copy editor who began suffering from dementia. She died recently. This is a profile from a few years ago.

We will use a framework for discussion similar to the one a few posts below that we are using for the Gene Weingarten feature about parents leaving their kids in cars.