During another break, he presented the mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom, with an inch-thick pile of articles.
Reviewing it in these pages, I called it "lyrical and impassioned, lucid and enlightening"; Biss has a tremendous feel for the subtleties of language: "I hung up the phone and fell asleep with my face on a pile of articles about herd immunity.
Whether you're wrangling projects, hoisting spreadsheets, slinging documents or drilling into a must-read pile of articles, a carefully selected arsenal of iPhone apps can help make quick work of the job at hand.
In the March 2012 deposition hearing, he brought piles of transcripts, articles, and Beck-Nielsen's novel.
He recently came across a pile of newspaper articles about Charlie, including one containing a photograph in which he was wearing his youth football Sarasota Ringling Redskins jersey.
There were stacks of data sitting on his desk and a pile of the articles and studies that he was most interested in at the moment; they ranged from the demographics of Bulgaria to the economic impact of sexually transmitted diseases in Central Asia.
Many Morgan Stanleyites no doubt feel that Mr Mack was worth almost any price.And yet, despite Mr Mack's virtues and the piles of recent laudatory articles, it is not altogether apparent that he is the man for the job.
It seems like lately there are piles of studies and articles emerging about whether or not grad school is worth it.
The image of the solitary social scientist, locked up in a study behind piles of books and writing article after article, is definitely one that would not apply to me.
There are, for example, some marvellous ways to use an iPad or Kindle to organise your "reading pile" of books, magazine articles and the like.
