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Book Keeping: Six-Figure Advance for 'Living the Story'

'I just jumped in and spent as much time as I could afford. I feared my day job was ruining my one big chance to do a good book.'

By Rachel Kramer Bussel – November 13, 2006

Journalist Joe Miller's first book, Cross-X: A Turbulent, Triumphant Season With an Inner-City Debate Squad, was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in October 2006. Cross-X tells the story of Kansas City Central High's 2002-2003 debate team and their bumpy path to success as they battle the statewide association governing debate for permission to travel to tournaments, as well as amongst themselves over strategy and the purpose of debate. Miller first covered the team while writing for alt weekly The Pitch, where he worked from 2000 to 2004, and quit "the second I got my advance."As Miller covered ...

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