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Books Pick: Halftime Entertainment
Ben Fountain’s excellent first novel, “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,” follows a group of soldiers at a Dallas Cowboys game on Thanksgiving. Having recently survived a shootout in Iraq, they are on the last...
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Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, by Ben Fountain
Anyone who aspires to write will find the story of Ben Fountain—and the story of how his first novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, came to be —both inspiring and heart-rending. Fountain began writing fiction at the age of thirty... Read Post
How I Wrote It: Ben Fountain on "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk"
Ben Fountain summarizes his near perfect (in our opinion) debut novel in less than 25 words: "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk - I think it's about football, cheerleaders, the Iraq war, the movie business, capitalism, sex, death, lov... Read Post
New Voices: Ben Fountain's 'Long Halftime Walk'
The former lawyer's debut novel is about the Iraq War and Dallas Cowboys football. Read Post