“After more than five decades trying, Larry McMurtry—the Pulitzer Prize- winning author of Lonesome Dove, Oscar-winning screenwriter of Brokeback Mountain, and creator of Booked Up, one of the planet’s largest used bookstores—still can’t escape the enduring mythologies of the Old West, which he set out to debunk with the publication of his first novel, Horseman, Pass By, back in 1961.”
Read more here. McMurtry’s new book is entitled, The Last Kind Words Saloon.