The word “guru” fits George Getschow, a Dallas-based former Wall Street Journal editor, member of the Texas Institute of Letters, and director of the Archer City Writers Workshop. For years, George ...
Essays by three local writers are included in a book released Sept. 5 by the University of Texas Press about Archer County native and author Larry McMurtry. Pastures of the Empty Page: Fellow Writers ...
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." ...
Tracy Daugherty’s new biography is the first comprehensive account of the prolific novelist who brought us “Lonesome Dove,” “The Last Picture Show” and more. Larry McMurtry in 1968. As a writer ...
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 ...
When one of the greatest Texas writers dies, other writers pay close attention. That's the premise behind "Pastures of the Empty Page: Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry," just ...
Larry McMurtry walks from bookstore to bookstore during the auction of his private book collection in downtown Archer City, Texas on Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012. Contributing columnist Talmage Boston ...