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I Think When You’re Dying You Start Looking For Important Things In The Corners. You Can’t Let Anything That Seems Even Semi-important Pass, Because It Passes Forever. Things Take On Meaning.

Certainly Working With Teens Keeps Me Up To Date With Language And With Certain Kinds Of Thinking. I Often Feel Like I Have To Go Back To That 17-year-old Chris Crutcher, And That Forms The Core Voice. I Can Draw On Teens From 1964 To 2001 To Find A Part Of The Voice I Need.

But The Truth Doesn't Need To Be Known, Or Believed, To Be True.

Sometimes A Book Is Better Than It Ever Had A Right To Be Because Of The History The Reader Brings To The Reading And Because Of The Methods Educators Use To Bring A Particular Story Alive.

Deadline' Is The Story Of A Young Man Forced To Discover Who He Is, And What's Important In Life, During The Short Span Of His Senior Year In High School.