In his recent travel book, Roads: Driving America\u27s Great Highways, Larry McMurtry declares himself a plainsman born and bred. He makes no bones about his preference for the American West-especially the Great Plains-over the East and the South. Certainly much of McMurtry\u27s fiction implicitly suggests this preference. His Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Lonesome Dove, for example, follows an epic nineteenth-century cattle drive from the tip of south Texas to Montana near the Canadian border, and the writer\u27s feeling for the land comes through loud and clear in his descriptive prose. That McMurtry was chosen as the subject of one of the volumes in Greenwood Press\u27s Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers series testifies...
English and French scholars began to write serious critical commentaries on the American Western alm...
In the last paragraph of his last chapter, Endgames, Chris LaLonde articulates an idea implied thr...
This book contains fifty interviews with Texas writers, including one interview with a dead writ...
In his recent travel book, Roads: Driving America\u27s Great Highways, Larry McMurtry declares himse...
In this thorough look at McMurtry\u27s canon through 1995, Mark Busby asserts that the novelist deli...
In these essays, originally published in the New York Review of Books, Larry McMurtry examines Weste...
Literary Life is the second entry of Larry McMurtry\u27s projected trilogy of memoirs. The first, Bo...
Larry McMurtry\u27s question for Walter Benjamin is what kind of stories arise in a place where not...
John Herd Thompson\u27s Forging the Prairie West is a wise, clever, and decisive book, though not an...
A Book on the Making of Lonesome Dove entrenches the epic deeply among Western history lovers. John ...
West of 98 is an ambitious and comprehensive collection of personal essays and poems by over sixty c...
Larry McMurtry is, by many standards, Texas’ best writer. He wrote “Horseman, Pass By” to wide accla...
“Lonesome Dove” is one of the most popular Texas novels of all time with many millions of copies sol...
Legal scholar Charles Wilkinson reads and recommends books as if the Video Age were not upon us and ...
While the title of this perceptive study of hope and dread in Montana literature might seem to limit...
English and French scholars began to write serious critical commentaries on the American Western alm...
In the last paragraph of his last chapter, Endgames, Chris LaLonde articulates an idea implied thr...
This book contains fifty interviews with Texas writers, including one interview with a dead writ...
In his recent travel book, Roads: Driving America\u27s Great Highways, Larry McMurtry declares himse...
In this thorough look at McMurtry\u27s canon through 1995, Mark Busby asserts that the novelist deli...
In these essays, originally published in the New York Review of Books, Larry McMurtry examines Weste...
Literary Life is the second entry of Larry McMurtry\u27s projected trilogy of memoirs. The first, Bo...
Larry McMurtry\u27s question for Walter Benjamin is what kind of stories arise in a place where not...
John Herd Thompson\u27s Forging the Prairie West is a wise, clever, and decisive book, though not an...
A Book on the Making of Lonesome Dove entrenches the epic deeply among Western history lovers. John ...
West of 98 is an ambitious and comprehensive collection of personal essays and poems by over sixty c...
Larry McMurtry is, by many standards, Texas’ best writer. He wrote “Horseman, Pass By” to wide accla...
“Lonesome Dove” is one of the most popular Texas novels of all time with many millions of copies sol...
Legal scholar Charles Wilkinson reads and recommends books as if the Video Age were not upon us and ...
While the title of this perceptive study of hope and dread in Montana literature might seem to limit...
English and French scholars began to write serious critical commentaries on the American Western alm...
In the last paragraph of his last chapter, Endgames, Chris LaLonde articulates an idea implied thr...
This book contains fifty interviews with Texas writers, including one interview with a dead writ...