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03461aam a2200349 i 4500 001 031526386A5711EE821FDDB657ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231014010043 008 230725s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 010 $a 2022052900 020 $a 1477327878 020 $a 9781477327876 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Getschow, George. 245 1 $a Pastures of the empty page : $b fellow writers on the life and legacy of Larry McMurtry / $c George Getschow, editor. 246 3 $a Pastures of the Empty Page: Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Austin : $b University of Texas Press, $c 2023. 300 $a xiv, 269 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 520 $a A collection of essays that offers an intimate view of Larry McMurtry, America's preeminent western novelist, through the eyes of a pantheon of writers he helped shape through his work over the course of his unparalleled literary life. 520 $a "Larry McMurtry is the author of dozens of novels (Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show), screenplays (Brokeback Mountain, Terms of Endearment), and essays ("Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen"), among other writings. He won the Pulitzer Prize, Oscars, and Emmys, among other honors. When he died in March 2021, he was possibly Texas's best-known and best-loved writer, an honor he famously dismissed with a t-shirt that read "minor regional novelist." George Getschow worked with McMurtry through the Archer City Writer's Workshop, an annual three-day event in McMurtry's hometown that pairs emerging and established writers. He's leveraged that network to build this collection of essays paying homage to McMurtry, only a handful of which have been previously published. The pieces in the volume pay tribute to McMurtry in a variety of ways. Stephen Graham Jones captures the thrill of seeing the legendary author prowling the stacks in his used-book store, wondering if his own books might one day be on those same shelves. Sarah Bird talks about McMurtry's "messy but mythic west" that made Texas appealing to her. Elizabeth Crook talks about how difficult it is to let go of McMurtry's characters, particularly those from Lonesome Dove, a book Geoff Dyer also found himself surprisingly unable to ignore despite everything he knew about it (it's long, slow to develop, etc.). Greg Curtis recalls McMurtry as a fellow student at Rice, and Charlie McMurtry, Larry's brother, writes about growing up with him in excerpts from his dissertation. Stephanie Elizondo Griest is enamored and perplexed by a shelf of books in McMurtry's private collection that he called his "runaways," travel accounts by 19th-century women. Diana Ossana, McMurtry's longtime screenwriting partner and one of his dearest friends, writes movingly about their friendship and many collaborations. Getschow has written an introduction that sketches the contours of McMurtry's life"-- $c Provided by publisher. 541 $d 20231009. 600 1 $a McMurtry, Larry. 600 1 $a McMurtry, Larry. $x Friends and associates. 600 1 $a McMurtry, Larry. $x Characters. 600 1 $a McMurtry, Larry $t Works $k Selections. 650 $a Western stories $x History and criticism. 655 7 $a Essays. 700 $a McMurtry, Larry, $e honouree. 941 $a 1 952 $l DBPE173 $d 20231014010134.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=031526386A5711EE821FDDB657ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search