Manuel Ramos writes:
>
> The May issue of Texas Monthly has a list of Texas
writers who
> have "produced ... imaginative works about Texas ...
For example ... James
Lee Burke ...
Wait a minute. Isn't Burke a Louisiana writer? Okay, the
jacket of the first Robicheaux says he was born on the
Louisiana-Texas Gulf Coast. A little vague, like maybe the
publishers were pushing it to make him a Louisianan. Now that
he's got a Texas series, too, suddenly he's a Texas writer?
Is he a Louisianan when a new Burke is about to be published
and a Texan when the other series is due? What about Montana?
Let's set the record straight on this. If Burke's a Texas
writer, all well and good. The Louisiana bayous are
overflowing with crime writers as it is.
Dick Lochte
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