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May 16, 2012

Buzz Bissinger's Angry Father's Day Book

Dwight Garner, New York Times

Buzz Bissinger’s first book, “Friday Night Lights” (1990), about high school football in Odessa, Tex., was a best seller that’s become an acknowledged classic of American sports writing.

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