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.” A longtime Bay Area resident, he now lives in Dublin, Ireland.

Rupert Murdoch & Me

A Memoir

by Bill Barich

When I started out as a writer, I found the British tabloids laughable. Why should I care if Tory bigwigs consorted with rent boys, or where in the Caribbean Mick Jagger spent his holidays? My goals were loftier. I considered myself a literary type, an aspiring novelist. You’d never catch me toiling on Grub Street, or so I believed until I got a chance to write for the Sun of London, one of Rupert Murdoch’s papers.

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