Givens and Take

I’ve been boning up on the literary exploits of Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens in Elmore Leonard’s Pronto and Riding the Rap (although I’ve yet to score a copy of “Fire in the Hole,” the nominal basis for Justified, in his collection When the Women Come Out to Dance), with an eye toward comparing them with the first-season DVD I just bought, and possibly blogging about the whole thing.  Imagine my surprise when I stumbled across a blog with the memorable name of Existential Ennui and discovered that its author, Nick Jones, had beaten to me to the punch with a four-part post that starts here.  I’m man enough to admit that he’s probably done a better job than I could, so I’ll just bow out gracefully and urge you to read his excellent series on Givens.