![]() ![]() Now widowed, he makes his life and living on the road, travelling around small towns in northern Texas, reading the news for those who find his performances entertaining, or simply can’t read. Inspired by a historical reader of the news, Captain Kidd (who made his first appearance in Jiles’s 2009 novel The Color of Lightning) is a 71-year-old veteran of three wars. In Paulette Jiles’s latest novel, set in 1870 Texas in the aftermath of the American Civil War, that someone is Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd. With the omnipresence of 24-hour TV news channels, online news aggregators, and Twitter, it is difficult to imagine a time when global news wasn’t available instantaneously when, if you wanted any sense of world events, you might have had to congregate in a public forum and pay to listen to someone read the newspaper. ![]()
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