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Whether that's true of all cities or not, this collection won't do anything to disprove that sentiment, because many of the pieces here are focused on things that only an Austinite would truly care about. This is either myopic navel-gazing or a sincere effort to cater to the local spirit or both , but I think an outsider could actually appreciate the literary merits of some of these pieces without being too sickened by the constant torrents of self-love on display here. But, as the saying goes, if you don't like Austin, then Dallas is right up the road, and happy trails to you.

The book is organized chronologically into sections that detail increasingly narrow slices of time. The next section leaps up to the s and includes a quick piece about Barton Springs by Senator Ralph Yarbrough and an excerpt from Lyndon Johnson's excellent "tarnish on the violet crown" speech, one of my personal favorites of his. As Robert Caro's excellent LBJ biography details, Austin was the first city in the country to have public housing, and though the Dixiecrat-mandated segregation of those units entrenched an unfortunate situation of racial separation in the city, this small step towards alleviating poverty was an important step on the road to the Great Society.

The section of the 50s is subtitled "This True Paradise On Earth", and it marks what I think is the final period before Austin became a "real" city. Names like Faulk, Dobie, Bedichek, and Webb are prominent, as around their nucleus the first true Austin literary culture coalesces. Ann Richards contributes a funny story about the beginnings of her interest in politics, and David Richards no relation? The 60s section is understandably dominated by UT-related content like the Whitman shooting, but there are plenty of good ones about other subjects, like Miguel Gonzales-Garth's pieces about Argentine literary badass Jorge Luis Borges, an excerpt from Billy Lee Brammer's superb political novel The Gay Place, and good snippets from novelist Larry McMurtry and historian Harry Ransom.

The 70s section gets into material more familiar to modern Austinites. Pat Taylor's memories of hippie water ceremonies are both amusing and touching, Jan Reid's chapter from "The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock" is still relevant for as long as Willie Nelson is, and Michael Adams' "Crossroads at the Broken Spoke" is both a wonderfully evocative work of character description and an excellent homage to the famous honky-tonk joint that's still bravely enduring the lightning-speed transformation of South Lamar near where I grew up.

The 80s is when my own history with Austin begins, and I particularly enjoyed Joseph Jones' piece on enjoying Waller Creek currently a rivulet of filth sullenly oblivious to the city's periodic and desultory plans to rehabilitate it , Molly Ivins' hilarious account of Ann Richards' election as governor, and Marion Wink's poem about the summer heat, which has only gotten more brutal: "Insects ruled the earth.

They commandeered the food supply and would not let us sleep. Willing slaves, we did nothing without orders. Only showers came from the heart. Two of these pieces sum up this era the best to me. First, Robert Draper's affectionate yet firm farewell "Adios to Austin" is a thoughtful meditation on why he felt that he and the city had to part ways though, weirdly, he now seems to live in Asheville, NC of all places.

I don't agree with his sentiments, but it's a useful perspective. Second, William J. Scheick's "Gridlock" is perhaps the ultimate example of a piece that only an Austinite could love; outsiders hate our traffic, but his hilarious experiences trying to find a "secret path" across our nightmarishly overcrowded downtown will bring instant pangs of pained recognition from anyone who's ever had to put up with the consequences of our city government's stubborn refusal to acknowledge our inexorable growth.

Different people will have different opinions on the strength of the works collected here, but overall this is a great compendium of talent, and while it's been a while since Billy Lee Brammer made the last serious attempt at crafting a "Great Austin Novel", there's plenty of local talent here, and even more affection for this city that manages to retain its charm and magnetism after all these years.

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