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Article: Journey back to Philly for former columnist: That old Daily News columnist Pete Dexter is trucking to Philly from Georgia after collecting a payload of memories for a new novel.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- April 10, 2007
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Byline: Amy S. Rosenberg
Apr. 10--MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. -- Hanging around with Pete Dexter, you can't help but collect some characters along the way. The troupe assembled along the bar at the red-walled Doc Oliver's Brew & Cue alone is right out of the old Dexter playbook. Were it the old days, and you were making the rounds with Dexter, you might literally collect these people.
"We'd have to take him with us," he says more than once, regarding the likely outcome of striking up a conversation with someone like the drooling but bucolic old man at the bar, or the not drooling but staggering man outside the pool hall, or the cackling woman whose ...
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