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Emily J. Edwards @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

i can say a lot about lonesome dove but to boil it down: it is a book that truly muses on how men have basically no interiority and how that is extremely bad for society

Phillip Maciak@pjmaciak.bsky.social

"If more books were published by men with explicitly masculine themes, would there actually be a wider male readership?" This is very much in the Platnerian mode that presumes all men are only attracted to content by, for, and possibly about Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor. jacobin.com/2026/10/lone...

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The Strange Resurrection of Lonesome Dove

Larry McMurtry’s 1985 cowboy epic is finding a new generation of readers online. Its revival raises an awkward question for publishing: What happened to the big, bloody, male-coded literary novel and ...

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Christine Merrill she/her @christinemerrill.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

So, after centuries where the majority of books were written by and about men, someone is saying that the reason men don't read now is because they can't find anything written by and about them. Oh yeah. That tracks.

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Emily J. Edwards @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

there are two entire goals for men in lonesome dove: money and fuckin'. gus has the closest thing to a realization that it ain't all money and fuckin', and he has to do that by putting death on the shoulders of a woman he loves. the women of lonesome dove carry EVERY burden.

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Keith Roysdon @keithroysdon.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I’m sighing over here. I don’t know how to explain (to myself, even) why men have changed over 40 years: that lack of interiority you cite, diminished empathy, diminished curiosity, reading less, being assholes. I wish I knew. I feel good about the one man I was responsible for but others…

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