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Article: Dexter & His Prize Entry;The `Paris Trout' Author's Tough Tale
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- The Washington Post
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- November 28, 1988
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Pete Dexter had his 15 minutes seven years ago, but they were
the wrong ones.
Ever since the big tussle with the baseball bats outside the
South Philly bar-we'll come back to that in a moment-Dexter has been
applying himself to writing fiction. The critics have been
impressed. Now there exists the possibility, one he modestly
relishes, that Dexter might become better known as a novelist than as
a street-fightin' newspaper columnist. Tomorrow the judges of the
National Book Award might give his latest novel, "Paris Trout," its
fiction prize. Or they might not.
Sitting in a Georgetown living room, stroking the top of his
head as if it might still smart a little, Dexter doesn't seem ...