A certain segment of our readers will know the name Dick Reavis. He’s a professor now at North Carolina State, but he used to live in Dallas. Great writer. I’m sure it doesn’t appear at the top of he résumé, but once upon a time, he even wrote a story for the dearly departed Met that detailed how he walked into a standoff between the Montana Freemen and the FBI, armed with nothing but the book he’d written about the Branch Davidians (literally holding that book in front of him as he walked toward their compound). For that assignment, Dick borrowed my then very state of the art PowerBook 160, which I feared would be a casualty of the enterprise. Also probably not on his résumé: dude rocks a serious mustache.
Anyway, he’s got a new book out called Catching Out: The Secret Lives of Day Laborers, about his experience in that line of work. It’s getting some good pub. You might want to give it a look. (Unless you’re former D Magazine contributing editor Craig Hanley, in which case maybe you should steer clear of the book lest you kick yourself so hard that you require medical attention, because you had the same idea two years ago and didn’t get a book deal out of it.)
