MAGA pop culture gets another boost fromThe Hunting Wives'author

"Longview, Texas, is a two-hour drive due east of Dallas. Incorporated in 1871, the city flourished during the oil rush of the 1930s before settling into a perfectly pleasant slice of America. Now it's undergoing a second boom beyond its bustling downtown, this one marked by steamy trysts in dark pine forests, married women who stay out past sunrise and murder. So much murder."

"May Cobb, best known as the author of The Hunting Wives (Berkley), the novel behind the hit Netflix series of the same name, has remade her hometown into a fantasyland of rugged, rich men and women who are masters of social warfare and sexual intrigue. But she's not just world-building. She's responding to a growing appetite for entertainment that plays out on stages other than coastal favorites like Nantucket, Massachusetts, or Beverly Hills, California, and centers on characters who reflect the new faces of conservative America."

"Her latest, All the Little Houses (Sourcebooks Landmark), doubles down on the glorious East Texas landscapes and ladies in denim and diamonds while turning the clock back to the 1980s. The unapologetically lurid tale of two families locked in an ever-complex cat's cradle of class resentments and adulterous power plays also swarms with queen bees and jaw-droppingly muscular men that feel straight out of the Real Housewives playbook."

Longview, Texas, evolved from an oil-era boomtown into a locale now portrayed as a second booming landscape of sex, betrayal and violence. May Cobb reimagines that setting into a seductive world of wealthy, rugged men and competitive women engaged in social warfare and erotic intrigue. Her new novel, All the Little Houses, revisits the 1980s to depict two families trapped in class resentments, adultery and power plays populated by queen bees and muscular figures reminiscent of reality-TV archetypes. The rise of such stories reflects a demand for narratives set outside coastal enclaves and focused on conservative, oil-influenced communities.

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