Do Cowboys Read Zane Grey?
Undermajordomo Minor. Patrick deWitt. Ecco, 2015. 336 pp. $26.99 (cloth). And a related question, perhaps more useful: what is the relationship between occupation and genre? Somebody needed to rustle up a herd or two of cattle before Owen Wister could write The Virginian. Dashiell Hammett’s objective narration in The Maltese Falcon would be awfully dry …