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Ben Fountain

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    June 5, 2011

    What Do The Kessler, the Trinity River Toll Road, Forest Lane Have In Common? This Item.

    Photo by Dylan HollingsworthA certain "sleepy-eyed Dr Pepper addict with grizzled blond dreadlocks"​That's a mighty nice piece about The Kessler in The New York Times this morning; nice illustration too, courtesy the great Paul Rogers. The story's by local boy Ben Fountain, the att'y-turned-author ... More >>

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    January 9, 2011

    See, Strips Clubs Are Good For the Economy

    Patrick Michels​Dunno why Mayor Mike Moncrief and the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport board are so stimulated to keep that new Rick's Cabaret from getting its TABC on; don't they know that girls, girls, girls getting that cherry pie hot in herre all night long is good for the coffers? Says ... More >>

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    October 10, 2010

    On the Ground, In The New York Times, a Blunt Assessment of Dallas's Real Estate Market

    Flickr photo: Jeff Turner​Three months back, you may recall, attorney-turned-acclaimed writer Ben Fountain took a long, hard look at the increasingly empty Highland Park Village parking lot and wondered why come for The New York Times. It was the first installment in a slow-going, ongoing series o ... More >>

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    July 4, 2010

    Look, In The New York Times, It's Dallas Theater Center's Superman and Ben Fountain on the State of Dallas's High-End Retail

    Brandon ThibodeauxMatt Cavenaugh at Superman in the DTC's revisal of the '66 Broadway flop​I'll save the boy's picture of Dallas-done-in-LEGO for tomorrow morning; so too tales of our trip to the crowded-ish Sixth Floor Museum Cafe, which is far more surreal in person than Andrea describes below ... More >>

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    May 7, 2010

    "Dear Provost Ludden": Novelists, Poets, Profs and Publishers Step Up to Support SMU Press

    Liliana CastilloBen Fountain​Before she went home yesterday to soak in a large glass of well-deserved wine, SMU Press Senior Editor Kathryn Lang forwarded to Unfair Park a rather large stack of missives she'd received yesterday following the news that SMU Provost Paul Ludden had decided to save th ... More >>

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    October 15, 2008

    A Fountain of Genius

    Liliana CastilloBen Fountain​Before she went home yesterday to soak in a large glass of well-deserved wine, SMU Press Senior Editor Kathryn Lang forwarded to Unfair Park a rather large stack of missives she'd received yesterday following the news that SMU Provost Paul Ludden had decided to save th ... More >>

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    February 7, 2008

    En Mass

    Liliana CastilloBen Fountain​Before she went home yesterday to soak in a large glass of well-deserved wine, SMU Press Senior Editor Kathryn Lang forwarded to Unfair Park a rather large stack of missives she'd received yesterday following the news that SMU Provost Paul Ludden had decided to save th ... More >>

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    August 15, 2006

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