Before Buzz Bissinger wrote Friday Night Lights and became famous, he was a Nieman fellow. Two weeks ago he sat down with the current fellows on their last day and talked about what's next: "People say, 'Why’d you begin to write books?' The reason I really began to write books is that after my Nieman year I felt I owed it to myself to go and do something out of the box, and really, really do something different, not simply go back to my paper."
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