Damn. The Lonesome Dove quartet is easily my favorite book series of all time. RIP to an absolute legend.
Right on. I love McMurtry as well, I just think Townes is second to Dylan as far as American songwriters go. Tbh, he also pushes the “50 years” criteria.
I’m with you there. McMurtry is just my guy. "Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that." -Steve Earle
I spent a few days at his house in Archer City and god damn, the dude must have owned legit a million books. He had like an entire 2 story man cave that was all vintage porno mags from around the world. RIP
People forget he originally wrote Lonesome Dove for John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, and Henry Fonda, but I like the version we got
Here’s one I’d forgotten McMurtry and Kesey remained friends after McMurtry left California and returned to Texas to take a year-long composition instructorship at Texas Christian University. In 1963, he returned to Rice University, where he served as a lecturer in English until 1969. He entertained some of his early students with accounts of Hollywood and the filming of Hud, for which he was consulting. In 1964, Kesey and his Merry Pranksters conducted their noted cross-country trip, stopping at McMurtry's home in Houston. The adventure in the day-glo-painted school bus Furthur was chronicled by Tom Wolfe in his book, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/books/larry-mcmurtry-dead.html In the scene, Mr. Kesey’s bus, driven by Neal Cassady, pulls up to Mr. McMurtry’s suburban Houston house, and a naked and wigged-out woman hops out and snatches his son. Mr. Wolfe describes Mr. McMurtry “reaching tentatively toward her stark-naked shoulder and saying, ‘Ma’am! Ma’am! Just a minute, ma’am!’”
found it fascinating lonesome dove was his attempt to tear down the myth of the west and largely just cemented it
It’s amazing growing up in Texas thinking it was one thing and coming to appreciate it as something else. Being dumb I’ve found most of my favorite art fits this pattern.
Because when I worked in a party store in high school I had to hear it 10 times a day for the 6 months leading up to Halloween.
I’ve never seen a film that so closely and accurately follows the book. For that depth to come through on the screen, it still impresses me every time I watch it.
This is a good question. It's up there. Off the top of my head others - The Expanse Silence of the Lambs Jurassic Park The Godfather
i love the expanse but they have taken liberties with characters imo, especially Miller, that you don’t see in LD never read godfather silence is a good pick
remedy that, preferably in the dog days of summer with some whiskey in the hot shade of a porch at some cabin you’re renting for the weekend
Funs all over down here for sure https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-e...ry-mcmurtrys-historic-texas-bookstore-for-10/