Buzz Bissinger, a Pulitzer Prize winner, has written for Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, GQ and more. He is the author of several books, including Friday Night Lights.
"It’s quiet. And I really felt I needed that quiet. People say, 'Well anger was your edge, and agitation was your edge, and that’s going to hurt your writing.' I don’t know, maybe. It may be that in order to live a happier life you become a shittier writer. I don't know. But I just couldn't live in that fashion anymore, I just couldn't. It would've destroyed my marriage. It was destroying me."
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Show Notes:
buzzbissinger.com
Bissinger on Longform
[7:00] Friday Night Lights (Da Capo Press • 1990)
[7:30] "Pursuit Of A Big Blue Chipper" (Sports Illustrated • Sep 1968)
[12:00] "Disorder in the Court" series (The Philadelphia Inquirer • with Daniel R. Biddle and Fredric N. Tulsky • 1987) [unavailable online]
[17:45] Father’s Day (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • 2012)
[18:00] Three Nights in August (Mariner • 2005)
[20:30] A Prayer for the City (Vintage • 1998)
[28:30] Shooting Stars (Penguin • 2009)
[31:30] "Who Is Nick Foles?" (Philadelphia Magazine • Jun 2014)
[39:00] "The Plane That Fell From the Sky" (St. Paul Pioneer Press • Apr 1979) [pdf]
[44:00] "My Gucci Addiction" (GQ • Apr 2013)
[1:01:00] "Darkness in August" (Vanity Fair • Feb 2014)
[1:02:00] Wherever I Wind Up (R.A. Dickey • Blue Rider Press • 2012)
[1:20:00] "Shattered Glass" (Vanity Fair • Sep 1998)
[1:20:00] "The Runaway Doctor" (Vanity Fair • Jan 2011)
[1:20:30] After Friday Night Lights (Byliner • 2012)
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