Susan Granger's review of 'The Paperboy'
Based on his pulpy 1995 novel, Pete Dexter co-wrote the script with director Lee Daniels ("Precious: based on the Novel `Push' by Sapphire"), introducing the lurid plot with an interview with the family's maid, ...
New films opening this week
(PG) GOD'S POCKET: "Mad Men"'s John Slattery directs and the late Philip Seymour Hoffman stars in this drama based on Pete Dexter's novel about a newspaper columnist investigating a construction accident.
John Breunig: Shielding police department’s honor
In my notebook I jot a metaphor Bruce Springsteen liked so much he swiped it twice from author Pete Dexter: “Poison snake bites you, you’re poison too.”
John Breunig: Shielding police department’s honor
In my notebook I jot a metaphor Bruce Springsteen liked so much he swiped it twice from author Pete Dexter: “Poison snake bites you, you’re poison too.”
Grabbers - first sentences from new books
"Spooner," a novel, now in paperback, by Pete Dexter Two childhood traumas made Dorothea Lange who she became, or so she believed.
Susan Granger's review of 'The Paperboy'
Based on his pulpy 1995 novel, Pete Dexter co-wrote the script with director Lee Daniels ("Precious: based on the Novel `Push' by Sapphire"), introducing the lurid plot with an interview with the family's maid, ...
Dexter's storied career started in journalism -- read all about it
Collections of journalism are seldom a priority for readers, but lovers of fine writing ought to give a serious consideration to Pete Dexter's new book. ... As revered New York journalist Pete Hamill writes of ...
Dexter slugs it out, lives to get anthology
Reviewed by Dewey Hammond Paper Trails By Pete Dexter ECCO/HARPERCOLLINS; 289 PAGES; $25.95 Twenty-one years ago, Pete Dexter wrote a Philadelphia Daily News column about a drug-related homicide, and it drew a ...
Northwest Bookshelf
DEADWOOD: Pete Dexter, Vintage, 365 pages, $14.
'God's pocket': Hoffman stoic in one of last roles
The film is based on Pete Dexter's 1983 book, but director John Slattery clearly knows the territory well, bathing his film in grease and sweat and stale Schlitz beer.
'God's Pocket' review: A little too restrained
The film is based on Pete Dexter's 1983 book, but Slattery clearly knows the territory well, bathing his film in grease and sweat and stale Schlitz beer.
Readers await the works of three Puget Sound area writers
An article in the national newspaper spotlighted the upcoming novels of Pete Dexter of Whidbey Island ("The Train," set in Los Angeles, to be released Sept. 30); Ivan Doig of Seattle ("Prairie Nocturne," set in ...
The Home Team: My 20 favorite books of all time
"Paris Trout" (Pete Dexter): Violent, grim, depressing -- but beautifully written and riveting.
Community Briefs 10.2
Spooner' author to discuss new book NEW CANAAN -- Pete Dexter, author of "Spooner," will discuss his new book at 4 p.m.
Book Events Sunday, Sept. 27
.; Pete Dexter with "Spooner."
New movies
This adaptation of Pete Dexter's steamy southern gothic crime drama starring Matthew McConaughey is Lee Daniels' follow-up to "Precious," but will forever be remembered as the movie where Nicole Kidman peed on Zac Efron's jellyfish sting.
'Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case' got real very quickly
'Mad' man directed Philip Seymour Hoffman Best known as the charmingly debauched Roger Sterling on TV's "Mad Men," John Slattery turned to the mean streets depicted in Pete Dexter's 1983 novel "God's Pocket" to ...
'God's Pocket' review: A little too restrained
The film is based on Pete Dexter's 1983 book, but Slattery clearly knows the territory well, bathing his film in grease and sweat and stale Schlitz beer.
'Mad Men' end near, Slattery turns to directing
The film, which opens Friday and first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, is an adaptation of Pete Dexter's novel about the overlapping lives of the working-class people of Philadelphia's God's Pocket ...