Mike Mooney Types Pretty

Posted on February 3rd, 2009 10:58am by Tim Rogers
Filed under Local News

Got word yesterday that a story from the “print product” has been selected to appear in the 2009 edition of The Best American Crime Reporting. Mike Mooney’s story “The Day Kennedy Died” will appear in the anthology, which is guest edited by Jeffrey Toobin. Mooney now works for the Broward, Florida, New Times. The photo you see here is of Dr. Robert Nelson McClelland (taken by Randal Ford) holding the shirt he wore when he tried to save JFK’s life.

4 comments

  1. When a young writer’s work in D Magazine gets published in a nationally renowned anthology, all writers and readers should take heart. It serves as a reminder that great nonfiction story-telling lives on in a young generation of scribes from Texas – a place some critics on the Eastern seaboard still consider a literary wasteland. I tip my hat to Mike Mooney, a writer born on the dusty, windswept plains of Texas. He’s one of a many writers weaned at the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writers Conference of the Southwest, and on the lonesome streets of Larry McMurtry’s Archer City.

    George Getshow
    Writer in Residence
    The Mayborn Conference

    @ 1:04 pm on February 3, 2009

  2. The story was awesome, is awesome. I’ll never forget coming to Dallas for the first time with my husband who had interviewed for a residency at Parkland and re-living the history of a day most baby boomers will never forget — November 22, 1963. I can recall everything I did that day and still see the tears in my teacher’s eyes — she was so upset the principal had to come in and explain to us that the President of the United States had been killed.

    @ 4:06 pm on February 3, 2009

  3. The same story didn’t even break into the Top 10 of the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writers Conference of the Southwest.

    @ 4:07 pm on February 3, 2009

  4. Couldn’t happen to a nicer or more talented guy. Was a great role model for me just out of high school.

    @ 3:34 am on February 4, 2009