The "betaization" of America-----21 Books You Don’t Have to Read | GQ

21 Books You Don’t Have to Read | GQ:
"We've been told all our lives that we can only call ourselves well-read once we've read the Great Books. 
...So we—and a group of un-boring writers—give you permission to strike these books from the canon. Here's what you should read instead.

1. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Instead: The Mountain Lion by Jean Stafford

I actually love Lonesome Dove, but I'm convinced that the cowboy mythos, with its rigid masculine emotional landscape, glorification of guns and destruction, and misogynistic gender roles, is a major factor in the degradation of America. 
Rather than perpetuate this myth, I'd love for everyone, but particularly American men, to read The Mountain Lion by Jean Stafford... —Lauren Groff, 'Florida'"
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