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Books about journalists

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by boundforboston, Dec 6, 2016.

  1. CD Boogie

    CD Boogie Well-Known Member

    I didn't recognize sports writing at all from what Ford described. I recognized someone who had interviewed Frank Deford about what it was like to write glossy features for SI and ran with it.
     
  2. CD Boogie

    CD Boogie Well-Known Member

    WTF, just give away the ending!

    jk
     
  3. Killick

    Killick Well-Known Member

    The things that tickled me the most about Poet were the tiny details, from the clunky Coyote newsroom computers to the inept corporate Scripps office grousing.
     
  4. justgladtobehere

    justgladtobehere Well-Known Member

    So it's an NYT asshole bagging on tabloid journalists?
     
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  5. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    Is it just me, or would Fletch have been the worst co-worker in a newsroom ever?
    Guy shows up about once a month, but has a huge and obnoxious work area. When he does show up, he causes a scene with his "look at me" attitude, dresses like a bum in the office and acts like a jerk. He writes about four stories a year and still barely makes deadline on deep, investigative pieces so you know all of the editors who have to proof and fact check his copy hate him.
    Guy just seems like an ass on a lot of levels.
     
  6. CD Boogie

    CD Boogie Well-Known Member

    Wait, they made a book out of Fletch? Hell, yeah, get the book.

    Airhead'd
     
  7. Moderator1

    Moderator1 Moderator Staff Member

    My old boss in Richmond, Howard Owen, has a mystery series featuring a reporter named Willie Black. I've read a couple and they're quite good.
     
  8. QYFW

    QYFW Well-Known Member

    Metro columnist
     
  9. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    If you like "You Gotta Play Hurt," you should also seek out the followup/ prequel "Fast Copy: A Novel," which follows the earlier career of Betsy Throckmorton as a small town Texas newspaper owner-editor/pioneering female sportswriter from the 1930s to the 80s. Lots of college football insider stuff during the Texas glory days of TCU and SMU in the mid-thirties.

    A lot of Betsy's first-person flashback monologues to her staff are Dan Jenkins guidelines on how to write daily sports stories: "Nobody reads a garden hose."
     
  10. JimmyHoward33

    JimmyHoward33 Well-Known Member

    Main character in Resurrection Day by Brandon DuBois is a reporter. It's an alternate history in which the Cuban Missile Crisis led to WW3 and the USA is a military controlled state with censors at the papers and beholden to England/Europe for aid
     
  11. Bradley Guire

    Bradley Guire Well-Known Member

    Fletch Won
    Fletch and the Man Who
    Fletch

    Are the three of Gregory McDonald's Fletch books in which he works at a newspaper. The other seven or eight aren't.

    True Crime, the Eastwood movie from '99, was a book first. Not bad.

    The Rum Diary by Thompson is ok.
     
  12. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    Oh yeah, for fiction/novel you should check out Thompson's 'Curse of Lono' if you haven't already read it.
     
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