from the New York Times (gift link):

For example:

and:

and

Read all the recs here. Worth it.

Oh, and you wanted to know what I learned this year? Okay:

That most of the men of the Old West were drunk most of the time, which explains all the gunfights. There was more truth in those
trope-y saloons in those old Western movies and television series than we knew.

I learned that from High Noon in Lincoln by Robert M. Utley.

And you better believe I wrote that into

Launching live from the Poisoned Pen on February 28th.

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