Larry McMurtry

A composite image: at left, the cover of Pastures of the Empty Page, a book about Larry McMurtry. At right, one building in McMurtry's sprawling used bookstore empire, Booked Up, in Archer City, Texas.

The Lonesome Writing Guru

How author Larry McMurtry—and George Getschow, editor of a new book about McMurtry—helped shepherd a Lone Star literary community.

Leaving the Gay Place Lights a Candle for the Patron Saint of Austin’s Counterculture

by Andrew Roush

The Observer Review: The Long Voyage: Selected Letters of Malcolm Cowley, 1915-1987

Eye On Texas: Michael O’Brien Collects the Faces of Texas

by Michael O'Brien

The courthouse in Archer City.

The Last Picture Show, For Real