Dialogue comes in short, jerky snippets because the author doesn't know what the characters are feeling and what they would say about their feelings if they had any. When the oil boom was really on, Texas literature was about cattle brands and cattle drives and cattle trails. For several generations Texas writing has been backward-looking. When the oil boom was really on, Texas literature was about cattle brands and cattle drives and cattle trails. He is a Midland native, with two degrees from S.M.U. and a Ph.D. from the University of Houston.
Grandmother is in a nursing home and quite senile.
She mistakes our protagonist for his grandfather. If there are any native Texans left, a skeleton in the closet taking the form of an oil field woman will not seem especially farfetched to them. Lars Eighner, author of Pawn to Queen Four, now considers the Texas literary scene from his outpost in San Antonio. Menu Next Top Contents Prev. Click to learn how.