The Weekly Reader

The Lone Star State: New novels from Bobby Finger and Stacy Swann

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What makes Texas such fertile ground for tall tales and great storytellers? O this edition of The Weekly Reader, we review two new novels brimming with Texas twang and swagger: Bobby Finger's "The Old Place" and Stacy Swann's "Olympus, Texas." 

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