Pete Dexter on Deadspin

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Deadspin is building up a Q&A with Pete Dexter by running some of his old columns when he was with the Daily News in Philly.

I lost about 45 minutes this evening reading his stuff and the profiles that are linked.

His columns -his writing - is something else. He shoves a lot into a sentence.

The child in the child is somehow faded. She is eight years old but there is nothing in her manner to say she isn’t nineteen, with a house full of screaming babies and a high school sweetheart who doesn’t always come home at night anymore.

http://thestacks.deadspin.com/the-night-tex-cobb-saved-my-life-478472363

I'm adding Paris Trout and Deadwood to my reading list.

 

[Frank_Ridgeway]

Re: Peter Dexter on Deadspin

I liked Paper Boy. I read that the movie was awful, but I haven't seen it.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

http://thestacks.deadspin.com/cobb-holmes-82-spies-thieves-and-other-serious-busi-478484695

HOUSTON—Howard Cosell came through the hotel lobby yesterday morning, complaining about being away from his family at Thanksgiving. Randall Cobb's fight with Larry Holmes for the heavyweight championship of the world was clearly an inconvenience.
The news of Howard's inconvenience was relayed to Randall through one of the national reporters also here to cover the fight. "Howard's upset to be away from his family," one of them said.
Randall looked up from under the hood of his boxing robe and nodded. "I know," he said, "I got a thank-you note from his wife this morning. "

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Guess this is an off-shoot of Deadspin... The Stacks.
I bookmarked it and am looking forward to visiting regularly.

So when The Banter celebrated its tenth anniversary last fall I thought it'd be cool to reprint a handful of memorable non-fiction. I selected a few pieces and got permission to run them. Then I got greedy and I thought of more pieces. To my delight, I continued to get the okay from writers or from their families to reprint them.
The point is simple: find classic pieces of writing that can't be found on-line and give them a home. Introduce them to a new audience or present them to readers who haven't read them in years. That's what I'll offer in this space, a simulcast of what's being reprinted in this Banter series.
This off-shoot site is intended to be a living archive, so there will be material that is reprinted for the first time on-line but also, I'll provide plenty of posts with links to worthy material that's already on-line but that you may have missed. It won't all be sports, it won't all be links to articles. Sometimes it will be interviews or author profiles.
Most of all it'll be fun. If there are any stories that you'd like to see included, pieces that you can't find, shoot me an e-mail and let me know. I'll be more than happy to try and dig it up.
Let's start it off with this 2005 story by Pat Jordan on Efren Reyes. Published in The Atlantic, here's "The Magician."

http://thestacks.deadspin.com/still-diggin-474983703