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Bill Barich (born 1943 in Winona, Minnesota) is an American writer. Early life and education. He grew up on Long Island and graduated from Colgate University in 1965. Subsequently, he served in the U.S. Peace Corps in eastern Nigeria (Biafra), then settled in northern California where many of his books are set. Career.
Bill Barich’s books include Crazy for Rivers; A Pint of Plain; Big Dreams: Into the Heart of California; the novel Carson Valley; and the racetrack classic Laughing in the Hills. He’s written scripts for NYPD Blue and David Milch’s Luck on HBO, an experience he recounted in “On Luck: A Screenwriter’s Education.”
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Oct 27, 2015 · Hard to Be Good: Stories. Paperback – October 27, 2015. In his first collection of short fiction, Bill Barich gives us cause to celebrate a prose stylist who can gracefully cross the boundaries of genre.
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Bill Barich has 22 books on Goodreads with 2295 ratings. Bill Barich’s most popular book is A Pint of Plain: Tradition, Change, and the Fate of the Irish...
Hard to Be Good. Bill Barich. Farrar Straus Giroux, $15.95 (180pp) ISBN 978-0-374-16812-4. Barrich's first collection of seven short stories, which takes a look at the lofty standards people...
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Bill Barich’s books include Crazy for Rivers; A Pint of Plain; Big Dreams: Into the Heart of California; the novel Carson Valley; and the racetrack classic Laughing in the Hills. He’s written scripts for NYPD Blue and David Milch’s Luck on HBO, an experience he recounted in “ On Luck: A Screenwriter’s Education .”
Bill Barich is the author of six previous books of fiction and nonfiction. Amazon lists Laughing in the Hills among its ten best sports books of the twentieth century, while Sports Illustrated calls it one of the 100 best of all time.
