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Mad Men (2007)/S6E7 · Man with a Plan/Don on Ted's plane: The Last Picture Show
Mad Men · Season 6, Episode 7, "Man with a Plan"

Don on Ted's plane: The Last Picture Show

Don Draper (Jon Hamm) · Ted Chaough's plane

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Ted Chaough flies Don to a Mohawk Airlines meeting in his own small plane, and once the turbulence passes Don opens Larry McMurtry. The Chicago Public Library traces the copy to Sylvia, who reads it earlier in the episode and hands it off. That makes two books from Sylvia in one season. Dante came first, so at least this one is set in Texas instead of hell.

Sources: The "Mad Men" Reading List, New York Public Library · The Books of 'Mad Men', LitReactor · 10 Books 'Mad Men' Characters Have Read on the Show, Bustle · Mad Men: The Literary Hits, Chicago Public Library
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The Last Picture Show

Larry McMurtry · 1966 · novel

McMurtry's 1966 novel about teenagers in a dying Texas town, filmed in black and white by Peter Bogdanovich in 1971. McMurtry later won an Oscar for co-writing Brokeback Mountain. A book about small-town affairs going sideways is a pointed thing to hand the married man you're sleeping with.

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