Pastures of the empty page : fellow writers on the life and legacy of Larry McMurtry / George Getschow, editor.

"Larry McMurtry is the author of dozens of novels (Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show), screenplays (Brokeback Mountain, Terms of Endearment), and essays ("Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen"), among other writings. He won the Pulitzer Prize, Oscars, and Emmys, among other honors. When he died in...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Getschow, George, 1950- (Editor)
McMurtry, Larry (honouree.)
Language:English
Published: Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2023.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
McMurtry, Larry.
McMurtry, Larry > Friends and associates.
McMurtry, Larry > Characters.
Western stories > History and criticism.
Characters and characteristics.
Friendship.
Western stories.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Essays.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Essays.
Physical Description:xiv, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Acknowledgments / George Getschow
  • Foreword / Stephen Graham Jones
  • Introduction / George Getschow
  • Native ground. In awesome wonder / Charlie McMurtry
  • The boy with the lamp / Paulette Jiles
  • The Larry McMurtry I knew / Skip Hollandsworth
  • The master geologist of Archer County / Erik Calonius
  • Larry's oil patch legacy / Joe W. Specht
  • Teacher and apprentices. Leave his saddle on the wall / William Broyles
  • McMurtry's mild discouragement / Gregory Curtis
  • "Mike, it's Larry. I'm in trouble." / Mike Evans
  • Myth buster and myth maker. Ranging across Texas / Geoff Dyer
  • Gus, call Danny and the Rangers / Doug J. Swanson
  • The mishap / Oscar Cásares
  • Finding home / Sarah Bird
  • Reader and bookman. Larry McMurtry, reader / Bill Marvel
  • An afternoon with Larry / Greg Giddings
  • On book scouting and ghostwritten erotica / Brandon Kennedy
  • Runaways / Stephanie Elizondo Griest
  • Bonding over books / Kathryn Jones
  • Collaborators and confidants. The Moby-Dick of the Plains / Michael Korda
  • Stirring the memories / Diana Ossana
  • My long trail to Lonesome Dove / Carol Flake Chapman
  • An unlikely bond / Susan Freudenheim
  • Not so silent women / Sherry Kafka Wagner
  • Scenes from a friendship / Beverly Lowry
  • Road trip tips from Larry McMurtry / Katy Vine
  • Critic and champion. To hell with the sunny slopes / John Nova Lomax
  • Writer, pass by / Jim Black
  • Loving Gus / Elizabeth Crook
  • Workshopper. Somewhere a writer / Kathy Floyd
  • McMurtry's rebuff / Eric Nishimoto
  • At the intersection of aspiration and asphyxiation / Dianne Solis
  • Reckoning at Idiot Ridge / Cathy Booth Thomas
  • Furthur / Dave Tarrant
  • Legacy. Writing plainly and unforgettably / Stephen Harrigan
  • The Borderlands : a home for misfits like me and McMurtry's Danny Deck / Alfredo Corchado
  • All my friends are going to be Larry / W. K. Stratton
  • McMurtry passing by / Lawrence Wright.