The May issue of Texas Monthly has a list of Texas writers
who have "produced
... imaginative works about Texas ... significant works
that somehow defined the state to itself, the nation, and the
world. ... In other words, Texas literature, Capital L, is
the guiding principle." Surprise, but there are some on the
list that rara-avians should recognize even though we are
talking about lit-rah-chure. For example, Phillip Atlee,
James Lee Burke, James Crumley, Kinky Friedman, Joe Lansdale,
Max Martinez, Rick Riordan, Thomas Zigal, and, of course,
Bill Crider. Jim Thompson makes the cut as one of the writers
who got to Texas "as soon as they could." There probably are
other crime and hard-boiled authors on the list whose names
didn't click with me or I just didn't see. (The font is
god-awful small.) Manuel Ramos
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