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<br> Fresh out of college and following a brief and disastrous stint playing minor league baseball, David Goodwillie moves to New York intent on making his mark as a writer. <p>Arriving in Manhattan in the mid-nineties, Goodwillie quickly falls into one implausible job after another. He becomes a private investigator, imagining himself as a gumshoe, a hired gun—only to realize that he's more adept at bungling cases than at solving them. When, in his stint as a freelance journalist, he unveils the Mafia in a magazine exposé, he succeeds only in becoming a target of their wrath. As a copywriter for a sports auction house, he imagines documenting the great histories hidden in priceless artifacts but finds himself forced to write about a lock of Mickey Mantle's hair. Even when he seems to break through, somehow becoming the sports expert at Sotheby's auction house—appearing on major news networks, raking in a hefty salary—he's lured away by the promise of Internet millions...just in time for the dot-com crash.</p> <p>Teeming with the vibrancy of a city in hyperdrive, <i>Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time</i> recounts a dizzying and enthralling search for authenticity in a cynical, sup

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Author

David Goodwillie

Publisher

Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781565124653

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Humor, History

Rating

3.59 / 5 (118 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14