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• Absent Hearts

  by Buzz Bissinger + Follow

  Vanity Fair | May 2005

  A third of the students at Fountain–Fort Carson High School have parents in the military; as a result, even football games are played in Iraq’s shadow. For this small Colorado town, the war is not a political issue but a series of missed graduations, missed birthdays, and lonely nights.

• Shattered Glass

  by Buzz Bissinger + Follow

  Vanity Fair | September 1998

  At 25, Stephen Glass was the most sought-after young reporter in the nation’s capital, producing knockout articles for magazines ranging from The New Republic to Rolling Stone. Trouble was, he made things up—sources, quotes, whole stories—in a breathtaking web of deception that emerged as the most sustained fraud in modern journalism.

• Friday Night Lights

  by Buzz Bissinger + Follow

  Sports Illustrated | September 1990

  The oil-patch town of Odessa, Texas, lives for one thing: the start of the high school football season.