#daniel bourne

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But who has time to talk when hunger has your tongue?

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from “Gluttony” by Daniel Bourne

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Meyer spent five years researching and writing The Son, reading some 300 books on Texas, teaching himself how to hunt with a bow, and shooting a buffalo so he could experience what it was like to drink its blood. Meyer’s research methods may sound extreme — or perhaps exaggerated, depending on your degree of cynicism — but, whatever, it pays off on the page.

Our own Daniel Bourne writes about Philipp Meyer's The Son for his Year in Reading.