Larry McMurtry

The Weekly Wire: This Week's Recommended Events

The Last Picture Show

The Pleasures of Eating and Reading

​The New York Times book review this weekend ran an enchanting set of illustrations depicting what great authors--and a few contemporary writers pursuing greatness--ate while composing their masterpieces. John Steinbeck ate cold toast, Walt Whitman ate oysters, and F. Scott Fitzgerald ate tinn ... More >>

Tea Partier: Let's Hang Patty Murray

Don't mess with Texas. And don't misappropriate the words of great Texans either.​Yesterday, we showed how some more violent political strains were getting sewn into the fabric of the anti-tax Tea Party movement. Then, just like clockwork, one of the 500 attendees at a Take Back America rally ... More >>

The Weekly Wire: This Week’s Notable Events

Don't mess with Texas. And don't misappropriate the words of great Texans either.​Yesterday, we showed how some more violent political strains were getting sewn into the fabric of the anti-tax Tea Party movement. Then, just like clockwork, one of the 500 attendees at a Take Back America rally ... More >>

James McMurtry

Don't mess with Texas. And don't misappropriate the words of great Texans either.​Yesterday, we showed how some more violent political strains were getting sewn into the fabric of the anti-tax Tea Party movement. Then, just like clockwork, one of the 500 attendees at a Take Back America rally ... More >>

Brokeback Mountain, Mr. Arkadin, and South Park

Randy Quaid embarrassed, Orson Welles redeemed, and Christopher Reeve as monster.

Rough Justice

A killer pays his debt, and then some, in this harsh border morality tale.

Don't Fence Me In

Two men refuse to live by the codes of the Old West.

Northern Highlights

2005 suddenly looks brighter for fall movies, according to our intrepid explorer over the border.

Shameless Shaman

KEN KESEY: Two years after his death, the books are still coming. Are they evidence of genius, or a literary career wasted?

Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns, The Magdalene Sisters, and More

KEN KESEY: Two years after his death, the books are still coming. Are they evidence of genius, or a literary career wasted?

Bloom in love

Book-It dives headfirst into 'Silver Water.'

Moving on

McMurtry's latest frontier epic falls short.

Books Quarterly: Them's Fightin' Words!

What book have you fought about, and why?