Paper Trails: True Stories of Confusion, Mindless Violence, and Forbidden Desires, a Surprising Number of Which Are Not about Marria: True Stories of ... Number of Which Are Not about Marriage - Softcover

"[A] literary feat--when Dexter gets going he crawls under the skin and stays there."--New York Times Book Review

[Dexter's pieces] read like finely honed short stories....Their spare, haunting scenes echo Hemingway, their insights Faulkner.--Cleveland Plain Dealer

PAPER TRAILS is what great newspaper writing is all about.--Washington Post Book World

"A jewel box of muscular writing..."--Denver Post

"Pete Dexter is a master story teller in all forms... This is the work of a great American writer."--Michael Connelly

"Lovers of fine writing ought to give a serious consideration to Pete Dexter's new book."--Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"Laugh-out-loud stories...Ideal for... writers and any book lover who appreciates a good story."--Library Journal

"Paper Trails is a master class in tight, effective writing."--St. Petersburg Times

"The author's true eye for detail makes for easy reading."--Kirkus Reviews

"Paper Trails will stir nostalgia for those who remember a time when newspapers prided themselves on cutting loose, colorful writers..."--Columbus Dispatch

Collects eighty-two definitive nonfiction writings by the author of the National Book Award-winning Paris Trout, in a volume that features works that chronicle the writer's life and times. Reprint.