Scott Huler

Above all, I am a writer.

But I am also an audio producer, a photographer, and a videographer. That means I produce nonfiction work in words, in sound, and in image, in print, on the air, and online.

Gracious.

Okay this does not completely suck -- Longreads chose my piece about miniatures in Esquire as first among their Top 5 Longreads of the Week of Dec. 1. You might say I was kind of happy about that. Which meant also that it was a Longreads Best of 2023: Our Number 1 Stories, which is pretty high cotton if you want my opinion.

I am a writer of nonfiction -- my most recent book came out with the University of North Carolina Press in March 2019, so one thing this site offers is a link to that project's website: the Lawson Trek, and to my contact email. If this site does not provide what you need, if you want information on my books that you don't find on my books page here, I suggest my Amazon page or my Indiebound page, and can we just agree that Indiebound is where you want to buy books if you at all possibly can? Thanks. Now if you want to hear more of my public radio work than you hear on my audio page here, I suggest my NPR page, though here's a link directly to my best radio piece ever, I think (from the wonderful Splendid Table). For additional video pieces, try here, and for multimedia try here. For pure writing work, here are links to my more recent work in Tablet Magazine, Esquire, Our State Magazine, and Walter Magazine. And here's some work from Scientific American and Slate.

I'm currently senior writer at Duke Magazine, with an archive of my work here. A story of mine about the history of the Blue Devil won a 2024 CASE Circle of Excellence award; you can read it here. I also won a 2024 SCONC Award for this story about the Duke herbarium.

I served as 2011 Piedmont Laureate and I was a 2002-2003 Knight-Wallace Fellow at Michigan and a 2014-2015 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.

I hope you can find what you need on this site, and I hope you let me know if there's something you can't find.

A Little Bit Sideways has been rereleased!

It's my first second edition, if that makes sense, and I'm thrilled about it. Its editor calls it "the best racing book you've never read," which I find very high praise. It's nice to see work I did treated with such respect by people who really understand racing and racing history. You can order it here, and you can see what people are already saying about it right here.

Here are a few things I've done recently:

Republicans like to act like they can and should do without government. Would you like to do without FEMA after a hurricane? Think about this. NC Newsline is part of the States Newsroom network.

The GOP is so dissociated from standard decency that its values are the opposite of ... Superman's. For Cardinal & Pine of the Courier News Network.

The pet name the vice president's children gave her shows what a real family really values.

For the second time I got to review the new edition of the Chicago Manual of Style for the Washington Post. A lifelong joy.

Saying goodbye to a child off to college is something we all face; I've been thinking about this for a long time.

For Esquire's "Dispatches from the New Middle Age" series I wrote about learning to box when I lived in Georgia.

This one is a few years old, but I love it. Though I rather regret how prescient it was.