Your Mid-Week Experiment

Welcome to your always free, reader-supported edition of The Experiment where we share great things to read, cook, listen to, and watch. As always, this bugga free.

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Let’s get right to it:

Thanks to Stephen Harrigan for recommending this essay on why the decline of literary men should concern us. (gift link)

Omar Gallaga did right by Texas in telling the Whataburger story to a national audience. (gift link)

Better than it had a right to be, Red One wasn’t good, per se, but a helluva lot of fun.

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Buy the book Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick banned from the Bullock Texas History Museum: Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of the American Myth by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and myself is out from Penguin Random House.