Literary Life: A Second Memoir

First off, let me say I am huge fan of Larry McMurtry. I’ve read many of his novels, found them all fine and consider Lonesome Dove one of the greatest western novels ever, and one of the finest American Novels of the last fifty years. I dug his and Diane Ossana’s screenplay to Brokeback Mountain, t......more

Literary Life: A Second Memoir by Larry McMurtry is a positively charming, humorous, and enormously entertaining book. It consists of highly-digestible, short-ish chapters written in a friendly, informal style, as if one is sitting with McMurtry in a bar or coffee shop listening to him recount his n......more

I get the impression through my reading [ongoing] blitzkrieg of McMurtry novels, mainly, but this a third of his five or so memoirs that, writing is something he does, not so much as by inspiration but rather as compulsion as part of process. To me it seems that book scouting & possessing a favored......more

Larry McMurtry loves Duane’s Depressed......more

Larry McMurtry follows Mark Twain's advice for writing a memoir to a fault, i.e. don't do a chronological review but follow threads as far as they interest you (and hopefully, the reader.) McMurtry never fails to interest me, and this book is first rate in being interesting to me. But, it does feel......more