Charles P. Pierce discusses a deadline courtroom story by Michael Brick, focusing on Brick's description of the defendant as he awaited sentencing for a murder that he maintained he did not commit: "Writing well and writing fast always has been what newspaper reporters have for poetry. If I had to guess, and if he was anything like me, I’d say Brick didn’t know how good that passage was until he saw it in the newspaper. The deadline is a muse well-camouflaged."
July 10, 2016
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