Gamecock - A Townhall.com user blog (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Originally published By Mike DeVine, as Legal Editor for The Minority and HinzSight Reports I was up all night reading. The last two times I did this, I had delightfully consumed Larry McMurtry's "Lonesome Dove" and...
jeffreymark (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
1963 Paul Newman played the man-child Hud based on Larry McMurtry's story Horseman Pass By. I like the story because it introduces us to a typical Texas drugstore cowboy, or as we used to call them, Rexall Ranger, who cannot...
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
By Larry McMurtry Simon & Schuster, 272pp, £15.99
ricklibrarian (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
I have always enjoyed reading about other cultures and foreign countries. The appeal is to learn about or experience a different time and place. That is not what I expected to find in a book titled Books: A Memoir , Larry McMurtry's latest work of nonfiction. How different could a bookseller's life be than a librarian's life? Very different, it turns out. The book as physical object is much more important...
The Rehearsal Studio (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
In reviewing Larry McMurtry's Books: A Memoir for The New York Review , Michael Dirda chose to dwell on the fact that McMurtry's first reading experiences were with "a box of cheap adventure fiction from the 1930s." Dirda reacted as follows: In truth, what could have better suited a dreamy boy than just such wonderful trash? After all, real readers always read for excitement; only the nature of that...
DATA news (Free subscription) | 27/07/2008
The novelist Larry McMurtry looks back on his long second career as a bookseller.
Bill Peschel (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
B orn today: William Hone, author, bookseller, journalist, Bath, Somerset, 1780; Allen Ginsberg, poet, Newark, N.J., 1926; Marion Zimmer Bradley, sci-fi, fantasy author, Albany, N.Y., 1930; Larry McMurtry, novelist, screenwriter, Wichita Falls, Texas, 1936. Died: F.E. Sillanpää, novelist, Helsinki, Finland, 1964; Franz Kafka, novelist, Kierlina, Austria, 1924; William M. Gaines, comic-book publisher,...
Bill Boyarsky (Free subscription) | 01/05/2008
"Small bookstores are doomed, unless the people who own and run them have deep pockets."
Opinion L.A. (Free subscription) | 01/05/2008
The stars came out for love of Larry McMurtry, just as, 45 years ago, McMurtry came out to Los Angeles, and kept coming back -- for love of books. McMurtry won a Pulitzer Prize for ‘’Lonesome Dove,’’ one of his...
Listics (Free subscription) | 14/04/2008
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DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 26/02/2008
Rent It I didn't catch Comanche Moon , the expensive three-night Western miniseries that CBS aired this past January, but I was a big fan of this prequel's inspiration, Lonesome Dove , so I was curious to check out the new Sony DVD release. Unfortunately, Larry McMurtry's Comanche Moon (whose bankable name is curiously absent from the front cover of the DVD) doesn't come near the original, with only...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 23/01/2008
Though celebrated as a movie heartthrob, Heath Ledger's film career was notable for its literary bent. The Australian actor was associated with everyone from William Shakespeare to Bob Dylan to Larry McMurtry to Frank Miller. Below are five memorable titles from a decade in films:
Time to Write (Free subscription) | 22/01/2008
In an interview in the Denver Post, Diana Ossana, who with Larry McMurtry adapted "Brokeback Mountain" and more recently the TV mini-series "Comanche Moon," was asked about the future of the Westerner as a character in fiction. Here's what she...
HoustonChronicle.com -- Corrections (Free subscription) | 15/01/2008
The first names of comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were reversed in an interview with Comanche Moon scriptwriters Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana on Page 12 of Sunday's Zest.
The Mayor of Television (Free subscription) | 11/01/2008
No, it's not the Republican Party's new campaign slogan: It's Captain Inish Scull's (Val Kilmer at his most eccentric, covered in fright wigs and funny old-timey mustaches) favorite epithet in CBS's upcoming miniseries “Comanche Moon,” a prequel to Larry McMurtry's...
