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July 8th, 2009

The Last Book I Loved: C. Max Magee, Paper Trails

imagedbA collection of newspaper columns might sound like pretty dull fare, especially 30-year-old columns.  But Pete Dexter’s punchy, combustible, wry, and sometimes goofy pieces are irresistible.

Paper Trails, released in hardcover in 2007 (but never released in paperback and now inexplicably and too soon out of print) collects columns written mostly in the 1970s and primarily for The Philadelphia Daily News and The Sacramento Bee. Dexter’s columns evince a keen eye for people wronged by the system, and in them he slays corrupt cops, sleazy lawyers, and crooked politicians deftly with his pen. …more

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C. Max Magee created and edits The Millions, a popular literature and culture web site with several regular contributors and frequent guest appearances by literary all-stars. He has appeared on NPR’s “Weekend Edition” and Minnesota Public Radio’s “Midmorning” and has written for Poets and Writers, The Morning News, and various other online and dead-tree publications. He and his wife live in Philadelphia.

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