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So on Monday, when the beginning of this crazy week was going down, I was actually up on the hill guys with our

beloved colleague and Renaissance man, Larry Wright, talking about his new novel, Mr. Texas,

which is a reminder. We work with such amazing people, but Larry Wright, I think, has got to be

the most amazing of them, right? He's a screenwriter.

He's a playwright.

He's a novelist.

And, of course, he's a National Magazine Award-winning nonfiction writer, too.

Larry is just a genius.

I always come away from my encounters with Larry feeling boring and unproductive.

The book is an incredible dead-on look at very writ from the headlines,

Texas today. One of the main figures is a speaker of the Texas House of Representatives.

And we're having this conversation in the shadow of the Capitol the other day when the motion

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