A deep dive into writer Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove miniseries and earlier Streets of Laredo screenplay led Abel Fenwick to coordinate a conference at SMU about McMurtry and mythmaking.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clearly, McMurtry’s evocative and unromanticized take on Western life is having a moment, and he’s the rare writer whose screen ...

Larry McMurtry, the Texas-born Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist known for bringing memorable characters and scenes to life in books and on screen, has died. His death was confirmed Friday by a ...

McMurtry cushions his failure to decenter the core of the Western myth, which he identifies as the belief that cowboys are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The renowned bookstore founded in Archer City by award-winning "Lonesome Dove" author Larry McMurtry has been closed for over two ...

A literary center in Archer City, a tiny ranching town in Texas, keeps alive the legacy of famed Western author Larry McMurtry. Larry McMurtry was the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Lonesome Dove." ...

ARCHER CITY, Texas — The celebrated Western writer, Larry McMurtry, aspired to turn this one-stoplight hometown into one of America's great book centers. For a time, he succeeded. You could visit one ...

American novelist Larry McMurtry died in 2021, but the essence of the Texas-born author still fills the same building that’s now home to the Larry McMurtry Literary Center. He is in the vases of ...

How The Washington Post’s now-defunct Book World transformed the careers of two giants of American literature. By David Streitfeld Try this short quiz on novels set around America’s 19th-century ...

A literary center in Archer City, a tiny ranching town in Texas, keeps alive the legacy of famed Western author Larry McMurtry. A literary center named for author Larry McMurtry breathes life into his ...