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Gus Dies
Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove is one of the best Texas novels of our time. The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel was later made into a wonderful television mini-series, which starred Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones as the iconic former Texas...
Customer service
Robert Duvall -- in his classic role of former Texas Ranger Gus McCrae in Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove -- reminds a bartender the importance of good customer service....
Lucy and Ethel in Iowa City
While reminiscing about my late mother with family members and friends at her recent funeral, it occurred to me that her remarkable life would be a great subject for a Larry McMurtry novel. Along those lines, Sarah Swisher, an...
An entertaining upcoming week in Houston
No one in Houston this week can complain about lack of opportunity for intellectual stimulation. First, well-known legal blogger and Clear Thinkers favorite Larry Ribstein will be lecturing on Thursday afternoon from noon to 2 p.m. at the University...
Importantitis
Theater critic Terry Teachout made an interesting point the other day in this W$J op-ed about one of the hazards of great achievement relatively early in one's career: Leonard Bernstein set Broadway on fire in 1957 with "West Side Story,"...
Well, "Lonesome Dove" was kind of a love story between two cowboys, too
You've probably heard by now about Brokeback Mountain, the new movie based on the Annie Proulx book about how a secret homosexual relationship between two cowboys plays out over the years. Inasmuch as Larry McMurtry -- author of the incomparable...
The risks of the Texas-Mexico border
This Washington Post article reports on a troubling development that many Texans prefer to ignore -- that is, the increasing number of missing persons who are being abducted in the Mexican border towns along the border of Texas and Mexico....
McMurtry on "My Life"
Larry McMurtry, Texas' finest novelist and the author of the incomparable 1986 Pulitzer Price winner Lonesome Dove, reviews former President Bill Clinton's autobiography My Life in this NY Times Review of Books review. Mr. McMurtry gives the book a generally...
Larry McMurtry on General Grant
In this NY Times Review of Books review, my favorite novelist -- Larry McMurtry, author of the incomparable "Lonesome Dove" and many other fine novels -- writes about Mark Perry's new book, "Grant and Twain: The Story of the Friendship...
Friday Night Lights
Some of my non-Texan friends chide me that the phrase "Texas culture" is an oxymoron. However, Texas actually is a place rich in many distinctly interesting cultures, and the following are a few noteworthy books and movies that explore those...
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