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	BookPage Interview October 2003: Pete Dexter
		Over the years, Pete Dexter's hard-edged novels have been widely praised for both the riveting stories they tell and the sparkling clarity of the sentences with which they are told.
		As intensely devoted as he is to his craft, Dexter is almost shy about discussing the meaning of his novels.
		Dexter tells it with the same unsparing, almost aggressive lack of sentimentality that is evident in his previous novels.
	www.bookpage.com /0310bp/pete_dexter.html (943 words)

	Train by Pete Dexter - review
		Pete Dexter's noir fiction brings California in the 1950s to dark and sinister life, as he presents two grim, but ironically humorous plots.
		Pete Dexter was born in Michigan in 1943.
		Dexter received a B.A. from the University of South Dakota before pursuing a career as a journalist.
	mostlyfiction.com /mystery/dexter.htm (1441 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Pete Dexter Times Union Article
		Pete Dexter, acclaimed novelist and screenwriter, is roadside somewhere in the isolated flats of the Texas panhandle -- and he doesn't seem to like it.
		Dexter is driving to the East Coast from his home in Washington state's Puget Sound to kick off a book tour timed to the paperback release of his latest novel, "Train" (Vintage; 288 pages; $13).
		Dexter was accompanied that night by Randall "Tex" Cobb, an actor (he played the demonic bounty hunter in "Raising Arizona") and professional prizefighter who lost a decision for the WBC World heavyweight title to Larry Holmes in a bout so brutal that sportscaster Howard Cosell vowed afterward never to cover another fight.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/tu_dexter_pete.html (806 words)

	Powell's Books - Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
		In Paris Trout, Pete Dexter tells the mesmerizing story of a shocking crime that eats away at the social fabric of a small town, exposing the hypocrisies of its ways and shattering the lives of its citizens.
		Dexter's strongest suit is his exquisite understanding of the finely meshed engines of greed, appetite and self-interest that drive a small town....Mr.
		Dexter is also a past winner of the Pen Center USA West award.
	www.powellsbooks.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0140122060-20 (727 words)

	Sunday Times - South Africa's best selling newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Pete Dexter walks with a determined, hobbling gait across the lobby of a Chicago hotel and sticks out a battered-looking hand.
		Dexter writes with grace and intelligence about all facets of the human condition, from love and tenderness to lunacy and racism.
		Dexter has a pitch-perfect ear for dialogue, a mastery of plotting and suspense, a deep understanding of human nature and, most important of all, the ability to create intriguing characters who are absolutely convincing and hard to forget when you've finished the book.
	www.sundaytimes.co.za /2004/01/25/lifestyle/life04.asp (1899 words)

	Powells.com Interviews - Pete Dexter
		Pete Dexter's first novel in eight years, set in Los Angeles circa 1953, tells the story of a preternaturally talented fl golfer named Lionel Walk and his enigmatic benefactor, Miller Packard.
		Dexter's trademark themes are everywhere present in his writing, yet each of his novels is unique.
		Pete Dexter: The germ of this book was Western Avenue Golf Course in L.A. I've been down there a few times and it is kind of a rough place.
	www.powells.com /authors/dexter.html (4230 words)

	Train: A Novel (Pete Dexter) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		When Dexter writes, "Packard was amused with the world at large" he could just as well be writing about himself: curious, entertained, fascinated, but never unsettled by the grotesquery of human existence.
		With his trademark economy of style, Dexter brings these characters to life in their most reckless, vulnerable moments, stripping away words and manners until all that is left is the basic human pulse.Los Angeles, 1953.
		With his trademark economy of style, Dexter brings these characters to life in their most reckless, vulnerable moments, stripping away words and manners until all that is left is the basic human pulse.
	johnkeyes.com /a/0385505914-train-a-novel.html (1971 words)

	Train (Pete Dexter , Dion Graham) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		pete dexter' and that the 'Winner' blurb is lined up to the right of that divider line.
		Dexter's subtle shift in the dialect of his telling as he shifts from one character to another is superbly done.
		Pete Dexter's latest novel "Train" is a sure fire winner that simply reaffirms Dexter's incontrovertible status as one of today's great contemporary writers of American fiction.
	www.interference.com /webstore/us/product/1402563604.htm (651 words)

	Club Kaycee -- Kansas City Jazz History -- Dexter, Jr., Dave E. "Dex"
		Dave E. "Dex" Dexter, Jr., was the first to write about the jazz scene blossoming in Kansas City during the 1930s.
		Dexter himself contributed to the session as a songwriter -- co-composing "627 Stomp" with Pete Johnson
		Dexter frequently returned to Kansas City to record the musicians he enjoyed as a youth, including Julia Lee, Jay McShann, Tommy Douglas and Jesse Price.
	www.umkc.edu /orgs/kcjazz/jazzfolk/dextd_00.htm (550 words)

	Pete dexter - COVER TO COVER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Pete Dexter Jacket design: Skouras Design Cover photograph: Ralph Gibson Doubleday.
		Pete Dexter Doubleday 280 pages "The world is a hungry place," a punch-drunk boxer known as Plural maintains in Pete Dexter's sixth novel, Train,
		Pete Dexter’s "Train," the first novel in eight years from the National Book Award-winning author of "Paris Trout," is one of those books that shouldn’t
	www.searchforfind.com /sff/pete-dexter.html (230 words)

	Train by Pete Dexter 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Pete Dexter was the National Book Award winner for his 1988 Paris Trout.
		This is where Pete Dexter is more than good.
		Dexter takes us through their lives and out on the edge where they live.
	www.anovelview.com /bookreviews/train_by_pete_dexter.htm (278 words)

	Deadwood (Pete Dexter) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Dexter has the ability to tell a story in a way that simply commands your attention.
		Dexter's use of language and his sense of time and place are brilliant.
		Dexter chooses Charlie Utter as the central character, Bill Hickok's stoic, aloof partner, and it is he and his restrained wit that serves as backbone to this wonderful novel.
	johnkeyes.com /a/039453669X-deadwood.html (776 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Pete Dexter
		ete Dexter, author of six novels, is known for his uncommon mixture of comedy and violence.
		He often uses the idiosyncratic settings of his stories and unusual characters to heighten the dark humor of the situations that he chooses to write about.
		Mixing his trademark dark comedy with characters that are as reckless as they are vulnerable, Dexter weaves together a plot that highlights the social tension of the 50s.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/dexter_pete.html (314 words)

	Train by Pete Dexter
		Dexter masterfully builds the suspense and each unwholesome character bounces off the other as the novel wends toward denouement.
		In Packard, Dexter has created a flawed tough-guy hero, 'the kind of man who would hurt you'--yet one who transcends the hard-boiled-thriller model with his uncommon sensitivity to others' emotions and a self-awareness that his romantic idealism will probably lead to his own ruin.
		Dexter shows the light in the human soul mostly by contrasting it with the dark.
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?037571409X (922 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Review \| Review: Train by Pete Dexter
		The hero of Pete Dexter's 1950s-set crime novel, Lionel Walk Jr (aka Train), is a fl caddy at the segregated golf clubs of southern California.
		His last novel, The Paperboy, sent its protagonists wading through the Florida swamps, where they were eventually undone by an extended family of white-trash monsters who slurp ice-cream from the tub and murder their wives for kicks.
		One suspects that Dexter has installed the golf course as a grimly comic microcosm of 50s America as a whole.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,1118956,00.html (819 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Dexter
		BANGOR, Maine (AP) - A Dexter woman whose sister and the toddler she was baby-sitting were murdered more than four years ago was being held Wednesday on an arson charge arising from a weekend fire at the home where the slayings took place...
		Dexter Robblee and Sgt. Michael Rowe said they missed their jobs and were eager to return to school for the fourth quarter in April.
		DEXTER 80, FOXCROFT 18: The Tigers raced out to a 26-4 lead by the end of the first quarter and coasted to the win over the Ponies in Dover-Foxcroft.
	news.surfwax.com /uscities/files/Dexter_Maine.html (2246 words)

	The Paperboy (Pete Dexter)
		By contrast, Dexter flounders around so much with his ghostly characters that he just irritated this reader.
		Pete Dexter employs a spare, realistic style that takes its energy from the dark side of human nature.
		THE PAPERBOY may be more life as it really is than life as we wish it to be but then maybe that is one definition of good literature.
	www.ka-tet-corp.com /portal/webstore/us/product/0385315724.htm (621 words)

	Mystery Guide - The Paperboy by Pete Dexter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		His sons' efforts to free a convicted cop-killer don't play very well in that town, and Dexter does an excellent job teasing out the subtle workings of power and community pressure in a small Southern town.
		This is a wonderful novel, which works in many ways at once: as a study of a family, as a chronicle of a town, and as a psychological thriller, with plot twists I've had to work hard to prevent myself from mentioning.
		The only warning for the reader I have is that writing a thriller is not Dexter's only goal; if you're looking for an action-packed adventure, then this book may start a little slowly for your taste.
	www.mysteryguide.com /bkDexterPaperboy.html (412 words)

	Vintage Catalog \| Train by Pete Dexter
		With his trademark economy of style, Dexter brings these characters to life in their most vulnerable moments, stripping away words and manners until all that is left is the basic human pulse.
		Dexter has chosen Los Angeles, circa 1953, as the setting for his novel.
		Dexter has been highly praised as a prose stylist; he is also skilled at giving his characters unique voices.
	www.primapublishing.com /vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=037571409X&view=rg (1260 words)

	Paris Trout - Pete Dexter book review
		Pete Dexter gives a taste of how prejudices around the early 1900's affected so many African Americans, dramatically.
		Dexter is talented at writing courtroom dramas, giving life to many character's who get caught up morally in the fight for Paris's freedom.
		As the trials are being held Dexter shows the deterioration of Paris Trout sanity as he becomes isolated and threatening to his lawyer and the court's jury.
	www.buildingrainbows.com /review/reviewid/492 (375 words)

	The Paperboy by Pete Dexter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		I had just finished reading Protektor when I started The Paperboy, so the contrast between Charles Platt's workman-like writing and Pete Dexter's art was striking.
		Not only does Dexter have an elegant writing style, but is characters feel like they have been drawn from life, rather than created in fiction.
		While the story Pete Dexter tells in The Paperboy is not as dark as Styron's tales, the ending is not simple and we know from the first page that something has happened to the reporter Ward James.
	www.bearcave.com /bookrev/paperboy.htm (387 words)

	The Edge Online: Books. Pete Dexter -- The Paperboy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		There is a lot at the heart of Pete Dexter's new novel, but very little is written on the page.
		Penguin are being a little disingenuous in trailing Dexter's novel as a thriller, even down to the enthusiastic Scott Turow strapline on the cover.
		By about half-way the author has dexterously dismissed mystery and suspense to the character study he clearly sees the book for.
	www.theedge.abelgratis.co.uk /bookscd/paperboy.htm (532 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Deadwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Peter Dexter's western Deadwood is a work of American Literature that stands up on its own.
		Through course and revealing dialogue Dexter Dexter illuminates how we think grandly, why we act poorly, and why we continue to struggle for hapiness, joy, and a good lay.
		Dexter's characters also speak plainly and to the point.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/2070719200/goodcheapcom-20 (837 words)

	Pete dexter interview - NPR : Famous First Words (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Even the psychologist who did the pre-employment interview had seen something on Excerpted from Train by Pete Dexter Copyright© 2003 by Pete Dexter.
		William Raspberry, Maureen Dowd, Donna Britt, Leonard Pitts, Pete Dexter.
		The Paperboy by Pete Dexter: "My brother Ward was once a famous man." After Life by Rhian Ellis: "First I had to get his body into the boat."
	pregnancy-progesterone-level.our17.com /pou/pregnancy-progesterone-level-pete-dexter-interview.html (278 words)

	Dexter Daily Statesman: Story: Nelda Shaw
		Nelda Lee Shaw, daughter of the late Ralph Winslow Crain and Ruby Kitchens Crain, was born on Oct. 12, 1926, at Bernie and died in the Southeast Missouri Hospital at Cape Girardeau on Oct. 24, 2002, at the age of 76.
		Shaw was a member of the Dexter Church of Christ, a homemaker and a resident of Dexter.
		Shaw of Dexter and James Rand Shaw of Belleville, Ill.; by one brother, Larry Crain of Malden; seven grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
	www.dailystatesman.com /story/1002893.html (169 words)

	Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
		Dexter, a former newspaper columnist, is also the author of Deadwood and God's Pocket.
		Dexter gets Trout's selfish rage just right, and the steady decline of Trout's mind into lunacy is fighteningly menacing.
		And it is that circumstance, and the resulting trial, that causes the gradual emotional disintegration of not only Paris Trout, but of many of the other main characters of Pete Dexter's unbelievably good tale.
	www.dealazon.com /product/0140122060 (1369 words)

	Read Full Obituary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		He was a highly respected businessman in the Dexter community, having owned and operated LaGasse's IGA in town for more than 20 years.
		He was a member of the Dexter Kiwanis and the Dexter Club.
		A Mass of Christian burial was celebrated August 17 at St. Anne's Church in Dexter, with Fr.
	www.abbott-library.com /readobit.php?obitid=3081 (144 words)

	The Best Reviews: Pete Dexter, Train Review
		Perhaps no author can display the darkest side of life as easily as award winning Pete Dexter can.
		TRAIN is a fast- paced eighteen holes starring strong characters trying to do the right thing, but the message is even charity can turn abusive.
		Dexter will escort you to the most profound, deepest, but darkest corner of the soul.
	thebestreviews.com /book7240 (268 words)

	Amazon.fr : Résultats de la recherche Livres: dexter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Dexter London, tome 3 : Les Sources du Rouandiz (2 septembre 2005)
		Dexter London, tome 2 : La Traversée du désert (3 juillet 2003)
		Dexter London, tome 1 : Aventurier professionnel (5 juillet 2003)
	www.amazon.fr /exec/obidos/external-search?keyword=dexter (284 words)

	Pete Dexter Edifying Spectacle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		At the time I was enamored by Pete Dexter, whose books Train and Paris Trout I had recently read.
		I've read a lot of books in the line of city/street type fiction and Dexter has it down cold on the likes of Richard Price and even Pellecanos.
		It's a very lived in book and a very funny book and every single character is eerily believable.
	edifyingspectacle.org /thanks/authorsearch_PETE%20DEXTER/mode_books (268 words)

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