If you don't know who Joe Lansdale is, then shame on you. Because you have missed out on one of the best writers of the twentieth and twenty first centuries. Lansdale says, "...real Texans, raised on these myths and legends, sometimes become legends themselves. The bottom line is, Texas and its people are pretty much what most people mean when they use the broader term 'America.' No state better represents the independent spirit, the can-do attitude of America, better than Texas." In his time in the story telling world, Joe Lansdale has truly shown everyone how a man can become bigger than legend. To read more, you can get the issue here