James Talarico

Highly recommend Lonesome Dove.

It captures so much of what's beautiful and great about Texas.

Texas has gotten a bad rap, given the extremism and the corruption people have seen coming out of our state.

But if you want to know...

what Texas is all about, friendship and individualism and freedom and community, adventure, innovation, like all of that is in this one story.

So Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry.

And if I'm giving a second one,

a theological book by another Texan, Walter Wink, Engaging the Powers, which is all about how Christians should interact with government, with political power, and how we use nonviolence to achieve change.

It's not a lightning round.

I should go faster.

Lonesome Dove, Engaging the Powers.

Okay.

Favorite movie or movies?

Favorite movie...

It's going to be a movie I grew up watching, most Texas kids grew up watching, which is Giant.

James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, great movie, long movie.

Back when movies had intermissions, which I think we should bring back.

So yeah, check out Giant.

Filmed in Marfa, Marfa, Texas.

Louis Miller barbecue in Taylor, Texas.