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Why We’re Relaunching Texas Monthly Press
Digital subscribers can listen to this article. Subscribe today for unlimited access to Texas Monthly. Already a subscriber? Log in. The most poignant words in Bud Shrake’s 1972 novel, Strange Peaches, are spoken by an obnoxious TV producer who barely figures in the plot. The book’s hero, John Lee Wallace, is an actor who inexplicably walks away from his starring role on the fictional hit series Six Guns Across Texas. Wallace complains that the show isn’t realistic enough, and the executive upbraids him. “This show is not about Texas, as you were intelligent enough to perceive. This show is about America,” he says. “If there’s anything unusual about Texas, it’s that you might be more American than most places, even.”Strange Peaches, set in Dallas in the…The post Why We’re Relaunching Texas Monthly Press appeared first on Texas Monthly.