City Primeval (1985)

Elmore Leonard, Eric Hipple, and the Detroit vibe.

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Note: I wrote this week’s newsletter before the retirements of Nick Saban and Bill Belichick. I hope to write about them both in future newsletters, but in the meantime, here’s a link to the Saban chapter of my book, Season of Saturdays, and here’s a little ditty from this newsletter about Deflategate:

Deflategate (January, 2015)