If that doesn’t work, he takes to the Internet with relentlessness. It is one of the reasons he compulsively collects business cards, to find e-mail addresses. His roster of contacts is impressive and ever-expanding. Zach finds a computer in the lobby and checks his e-mail. We eat the free continental breakfast out of fear of the desk clerk. In the meantime, here’s an excerpt, from Father’s Day: He was talking about his new book, Father’s Day, a wrenching memoir about a cross-country driving trip with one of his twin sons, Zach, a 24-year-old savant with the comprehension skills of a 9-year-old. Check back tomorrow for that chat, and to hear Bissinger read a particularly moving passage from the book, which was published last week by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. “I felt, well if I’m gonna turn the light on myself, I have to be honest. “As a journalist, all I ever do is try to get people to be honest about themselves and open up,” he said. 1 New York Times best-seller Friday Night Lights, visited his alma mater the Nieman Foundation last week for a long talk with curator Ann Marie Lipinski and the year’s outgoing class. Because this is Bissinger, the conversation was at times salty. Narrative legend Buzz Bissinger, whose books include A Prayer for the City and the No.
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