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Hey, Friend, Do I Know You?

July 21, 2008
by David Carr
Columnist, New York Times, The Media Equation

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Not that long ago, I needed some advice on the book business and thought to ask my friend Buzz Bissinger, the author of “Friday Night Lights” and “A Prayer for the City.” The only sticking point was, we’d never met.

Although he used to be a reporter, we are not what I would call peers. He wrote one of the greatest sports books ever, and oh, one of the best books about city government ever. “Friday Night Lights” became a movie and then a television series, and apart from me being a hopeless fanboy of the show, we have nothing in common.

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