Larry McMurtry's Last Book Sale

Archer City's landmark Booked Up to auction 300,000 titles

"...Larry McMurtry is putting two-thirds of the inventory from his..."

July 16, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Meet Curtis McMurtry

A third generation emerges in the McMurtry clan

"...Meet Curtis McMurtry, grandson of one of the greatest writers of our..."

Jan. 7, 2013 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Respectable Enemy: Curtis McMurtry

Lone star scion on Nashville, mom/dad/granddad, and Otto von Bismarck

"...Last January, we sat down with Curtis McMurtry on the eve of his graduation from Sarah Lawrence..."

Aug. 15, 2014 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Spotlight: James McMurtry

A-political Dick Cheney blues

"...James McMurtry is the type of songwriter you take at his..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature by Dan Oko

Larry L. King on . . .

"...Larry McMurtry: He is one of the most enjoyable persons..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Books Feature by Tom Doyal

James Mcmurtry

"...the Texas Songwriter to his Appropriate Literary Precursor,' James McMurtry could play a perfect Joseph Conrad to Townes Van..."

June 20, 1997 Music Feature

Two for the Road

Larry McMurtry's New Books Continue His Journey

"...Roads: Driving America's Great Highways by Larry McMurtry..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Books Feature by Mark Busby

Two for the Road

Larry McMurtry's New Books Continue His Journey

"...of the American West: 1950 to the Presentedited by Larry McMurtry..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Book Review: 'The Last Kind Words Saloon'

Jes' Wyatt and Doc and the setting sun in McMurtry's latest

"...Native Texan Larry McMurtry, author of more than 50 books, has a..."

May 22, 2014 Books Post by Jessi Cape

Falling From Grace

"...Mellencamp, Mariel Hemingway, Kay Lenz, Claude Akins, Dub Taylor, Larry Crane and Kate Noonan. Like Thomas Wolfe, Falling From..."

April 17, 1992 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Two for the Road

Chronicle writers Dick Holland and Mark Busby on Larry McMurtry's two new books.

Aug. 4, 2000 Books Feature

Terms of Engagement

If 'We Can't Make It Here,' then James McMurtry's in big trouble

"...can see it in the brake lights of James McMurtry's Ford truck. Even in more civil times, before this..."

Sept. 9, 2005 Music Feature by Andy Langer

These Things I've Come to Know

What times are we living in? South Austin's James McMurtry spells it out.

"...James McMurtry makes up stories and sets them to music. New..."

Feb. 13, 2015 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

On the Verge of Obsolescence

James McMurtry

"...by Minh Carrico That'll piss me off," chuckles James McMurtry as he speculates about the inevitable. Two years after..."

June 20, 1997 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Start Lining Up Now

'Brokeback Mountain' to bring McMurtry

"...Reclusive Archer City novelist, essayist, bookstore keeper, and screenwriter Larry McMurtry will attend a Dec. 13 screening of Brokeback..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Screens Feature

Book Reviews

"...the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond by Larry McMurtry..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Books Feature by Mark Busby

Making Lists

"...sunk without a bubble had it not been for Larry McMurtry. A few months after the Texas Monthly list..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Book Reviews

"...Duane's Depressed by Larry McMurtry Simon & Schuster, $26 hard Larry McMurtry, Texas'..."

Feb. 19, 1999 Books Review

Boone's Lick: A Novel

"...Boone's Lick: A Novel by Larry McMurtry..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Books Review by Mark Busby

Oil's Well That Ends Well

"...(1985). The first loud shot came in 1968, when Larry McMurtry took aim at his home state with In..."

May 7, 1999 Books Feature

Paradise

"...Paradiseby Larry McMurtry..."

July 13, 2001 Books Review by Mark Busby

Film Treatment for the Really, Truly (No Kidding This Time) 'Last Picture Show'

The Rolling Roadshow takes over Archer City to screen Bogdanovich's classic among the people who inspired it

"...mission – a pilgrimage to the promised land of Larry McMurtry, the author's hometown and the setting/source for a..."

Aug. 26, 2005 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Day Trips

The Dairy Queens and crumbling sandstone of Larry McMurtry's hometown, Archer City, Texas.

"...the world-famous bookstore owned by its most famous son, Larry McMurtry...."

May 5, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

The Voice of the Writer

Readings From the Texas Book Festival

"...Larry McMurtry photograph byJana Birchum Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Books Feature

Day Trips

"...south of Wichita Falls was made world famous by Larry McMurtry's books and the movies The Last Picture Show..."

March 1, 2002 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Ruins of the Realm

Talking turkey with James McMurtry

"...that anybody needs to remind veteran Austin-based musician James McMurtry about the parallels between hunting and a career in..."

May 2, 2008 Music Feature by Dan Oko

Postscripts

Broadside Benefit

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April 30, 1999 Books Column by Clay Smith

You Know Nothing of Their Work

Don Graham and the many minds of Texas

"...1990s on everyone from John Graves to Mary Carr, Larry McMurtry and Cormac McCarthy, Patricia Highsmith and Donald Barthelme...."

Jan. 28, 2011 Books Feature by Cindy Widner

Salon of the West

They may not notice us every time we go to Barton Springs -- after all, they are thinking, passionate men, deep in conversation. But we sure notice them: the men at Philosophers' Rock. Who are they? And why does Austin owe them such a debt of gratitude?

"...loosely tied together. In his 1968 essay "Southwestern Literature?," Larry McMurtry convincingly demotes Dobie from literary giant to respectable..."

July 4, 2003 Books Feature by Steve Moore

Bibliomania

Books We Love and a Few Books We Don't

"...Mark Busby Year 1. Duane's Depressed: A Novel by Larry McMurtry 2. Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Books Feature

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