In Giant Country Don Graham brings together a collection of lively, absorbing essays written over the past two decades. The collection begins with a twist on book introductions that sets the tone for the essays to come-a self-interview conducted...
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In Giant Country Don Graham brings together a collection of lively, absorbing essays written over the past two decades. The collection begins with a twist on book introductions that sets the tone for the essays to come-a self-interview conducted poolside at an eccentric Houston motel favored by regional rock bands. Over piña coladas the author works on his tan and discusses timeless Texas themes: the transition of the state from a rural to an urban world, the sense of a vanishing era, and the way that artists in literature and film represent a state both infectiously grand
Contents; Greed, Creed, and Me: The Author Interviews Himself by Way of an Introduction; Places; Filadelphia Story; The Ground Sense Necessary; Texas in 1940: The WPA Guide; Doing England; American Narratives; Giant Country; Pages; Cotton and Classicism: George Sessions Perry's Farm Novel; Katherine the Great; William Humphrey: Last of the Southern Belle-Lettrists; Pen Pals: Dobie, Bedichek, and Webb; John Graves and The Regionalist Enterprise; "Urban, by Cod": Billy Lee Brammer's Texas; Take My Sequel from the Wall: The Lonesome Dove Cycle; Polemics
Palefaces and Redskins: A Literary SkirmishLand without Myth; or, Texas and the Mystique of Nostalgia; Anything for Larry; Paris, as in Texas; Puerto Vallarta Squeezed; What the World Wants to Know; Pictures; Moo-vie Cows: The Trail to Hollywood; The Big show: Autry's Artful Oater; Remembering the Alamo: The Story of the Texas Republic in Popular Culture; Nowhere Else But Southfork: What Texas Looks Like in the Movies; "Time-Traveling Through Texas": A Half-Centuy of Lone Star Movies on Video; Acknowledgments
