Last Thursday, a fellow book addict and I embarked on a book buying adventure to rival all others. We’ve travelled far and wide to hit secondhand stores before, but this was the first time we’d gone with our tax rebate cheques in hand. It seemed...
compelling documentary about a brawling "tribe" of surfers from the Maroubra suburb of Sydney, one of the poorest and toughest areas in Australia. Surfing's their escape.
A great cast does not necessarily a great movie make. Consider "Smart...
If you like to spend hours in used bookstores, you'll love Larry McMurtry's latest memoir, a rumination on how books have figured into his life -- reading them, writing them, but mostly selling them.
Or, more precisely, reselling them.
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Larry McMurtry’s latest book, titled simply Books, is a memoir of his many decades as a book dealer. One of his favorite activities, he writes, has always been buying books. Lots of books. His personal library at his home in Archer City, Texas,...
CBS brings the Old West to life in Comanche Moon.
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Successful literary collaborations are rare. The few exceptions—Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner (The Gilded Age), Charles Nordhoff and...
Larry McMurtry’s fragmentary “Books: A Memoir” has little to say about the matter of writing them, other than that by the mid-1970s this process ceased to engage him as much as buying, selling and collecting them and, ultimately, creating what he...
Background
Larry Jeff McMurtry (born June 3, 1936) is an American novelist, screenwriter, essayist, and bookseller. He is known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1985 novel Lonesome Dove, a sweeping historical epic that follows ex-Texas Rangers as they drive their cattle from the Rio Grande to a new home in the frontier of Montana. It was adapted into a hit television miniseries. Much of his other fiction is also set in the "old west" or contemporary Texas.
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