![]() ![]() Since then, nothing has seemed to satisfy Bissinger either. In 2012, a year after his lecture, Bissinger published "After Friday Night Lights," an account of their relationship. None of it had saved Miles, who ended up in prison on the wrong side of age 40. He told of decades spent trying to help Boobie Miles, including visits, phone calls and even cash payments for a car and trade school tuition. ![]() He had told a deeply penetrating story of the pursuit of greatness, an American literary theme as sturdy as "Moby-Dick."īut that night, as he railed against the great national injustice of it all - the palatial stadiums, the outsized coaching salaries, the broken promises and the abdication of education - Bissinger kept returning to Odessa, where hard feelings linger. And in "Friday Night Lights," Bissinger had elevated the form. No one gets to be an effective fly on the wall through histrionics. Reporting a work of narrative nonfiction requires patience, reserve and omnidirectional empathy. Unhinged anger seemed unbecoming for a storyteller of his caliber. For more information: See Brazos' website. ![]()
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