One dinner. Four journalists. And you. Whom do you choose?

*Gay Talese, to discuss scene-setting and observational reporting.
*Rick Bragg, to discuss writing with voice.
*Truman Capote, to discuss .... I'm not sure what. In Cold Blood, I guess. Also to point out how much everyone else sucks.
*J.R. Moehringer, to discuss storytelling

If anyone called to cancel, I'd invite Gary Smith to discuss interviewing.

 

I can't wait for this party to take place. ;D

 

So Can, are Paris and myself invited?

 

Well, Huckleberry I know I was completely against Paris coming, but I have had a change of heart.

Paris better tell Xan at the party that he looks hot though in the Lionel's white outfit.

 

Non-Sports Division: John Steinbeck, Mark Twain Walter Cronkite, Dave Barry
(Cronkite was a print journalist before going to TV)

Sports Division: Red Smith, Jerry Izenberg, Roger Angell,

 

ding!

dingdingding! I've read it. Great note, greater story, especially as she tells it in her autobiography.

I can't read any more lists -- only got to page 3 and already I've
dropped London and Heminway
added Quentin Tarantino (blame Reservoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction)
added Laura Ingalls Wilder and Norman MacLean
dopped Wilder, added Ellerbee
got stuck trying to choose between Red Smith and Roger Ebert....
dropped MacLean in favor of Cathy Horyn.

so....Horyn, Ellerbee, Smith and Ebert.

 

Thanks Can! Finally, somone with a sense of humor who doesn't hammer me for having some silly fun. I'll tell Paris to make sure she says "That's Hot" when she meets Lionell and checks out his outfit.

 

Mike Royko, Dan Jenkins, Marino Parascenzo and Brian Lamb

 

Brother Sebastian's in Omaha with

Mike Bamberger
John Feinstein
Red Smith
Grantland Rice

 

Thomas Paine and 3 others who would keep their damn mouths shut.

 

Erin Andrews, sportschick, 21, sxysprtswrtr

 

First of all, this dinner is at Charley's Steakhouse in Orlando-Tampa-Kissimmee (pick one). On the restaurant's worst day imaginable, it kicks the ever-loving crap out of Ruth's Chris -- the most overrated steak house on Planet Earth.

In fact, the greatest steak ever to come off of a Ruth's Chris grill would be equivalent to the worst steak ever served at Charley's. And as the "Steak Sherpa," I will not debate this point.

Meanwhile, back to the point...

Dan Jenkins
Jim Murray
Charles Pierce
Molly Ivins

Mystery Meat, I hate your new avatar (I fear spiders), but your choice of McCandless Phillips is brilliant. I discuss his story on the Jewish Nazi to my class every semester.