This week’s guest post comes to us from Tyler Allard: Princeton alum, good pal, and voted Most Likely to Become President in our high school (Spoiler: He has not yet been president). I swear I’ll be back in the reviewing saddle once I finish binge-watching all nine seasons of One Tree Hill my life calms down.
So….I have a literary man-crush on Larry McMurtry.
Perhaps I should back up a bit.
As a Washingtonian, I am drawn to works that exude a sense of place. After all, having grown up in a region that thinks of itself as a mélange of all the types and regional personalities that make up American culture (and whose local celebrities include members of Congress who — by their very job descriptions — are conceptualized as representing certain places), I am fascinated by the romantic notion that places have auras that can be embodied or captured. And what American place hovers more strongly in the American imagination than Texas?
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