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In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas – Larry McMurtry (1968)

In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas by Larry McMurtry

March 29, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I’ve been slowly making my way through Larry McMurty’s writing for a few years now. So this is the most recent book of his I’ve read, and the book that is closest to his death from this past week. He was in his 80s and lived a fruitful life in a lot of ways. He spent a lot of his life writing books, working in Hollywood, and working in the rare and used book market. His personal views and memoirs are well-documented as well. This […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: in a narrow grave, Larry McMurtry

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:105 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: in a narrow grave, Larry McMurtry ·
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All My Friends are Going to be Strangers – Larry McMurtry (1972)

All My Friends are Going to be Strangers by Larry McMurtry

January 20, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Part of the Larry McMurtry Houston books, a collection that includes Terms of Endearment and Moving On, this book follows (through the narration of) Danny Deck, novelist and wayward figure who is a kind of shadowy figure in both those other novels. The three novel overlap in incomplete ways, so that they almost tell the same story or same long story in different chunks, with different perspectives. Here, like I said, we have Danny telling his own story as a grad student who gives up […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: All My Friends are Going to be Strangers, Larry McMurtry

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:36 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: All My Friends are Going to be Strangers, Larry McMurtry ·
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Custer – Larry McMurtry (2011)

Custer by Larry McMurtry

January 19, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This book is just…not great. The issue comes from the fact that while Larry McMurtry knows a lot, and knows how to tell a great story, he’s not a scholar, not a historian, and gives way to a reproduction to cheap short cuts in his nonfiction too often. He tells you in no uncertain terms that a better, more fully realized, and more accurate and better researched book already exists: Son of the Morning Star by Evan Connell. I can’t speak to that book yet, […]

Filed Under: History Tagged With: custer, Larry McMurtry

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:35 · Genres: History · Tags: custer, Larry McMurtry ·
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Sacagawea’s Nickname – Larry McMurtry (2001)

Sacagawea's Nickname by Larry McMurtry

January 19, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

A collection of essays about the “West” in the broadest of terms by Larry McMurtry, published mostly for New Atlantic in the late 1990s. It’s funny because in a lot of ways this is such a pre-9/11 book, a designation I don’t think about much these days, but was of consequence at the time. A lot of American Studies texts in the 1990s, and this book, while not an academic American Studies book, has the flavor and sentiment of one, and references many of the […]

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Larry McMurtry, sacagawea's nickname

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:31 · Genres: History · Tags: Larry McMurtry, sacagawea's nickname ·
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Roads – Larry McMurtry (2000)

Roads by Larry McMurtry

January 19, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Within this book, you would find a really stellar reading list of American fiction and nonfiction, something I might put together and add later. This would make this already a worthwhile book. One of my favorite articles from the last few years is a list of lists (of books, to read) pulled from within novels and memoirs not ostensibly about reading books. This includes things like Rabih Alameddine’s An Unnecessary Woman and Jo Walton’s Among Others, both of which list dozens of books read by […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: Larry McMurtry, roads

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:30 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: Larry McMurtry, roads ·
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