{"product_id":"pastures-of-the-empty-page-fellow-writers-on-the-life-and-legacy-of-larry-mcmurtry-hardback-9781477327876","title":"Pastures of the Empty Page; Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry (Hardback) 9781477327876","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePastures of the Empty Page\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGeorge Getschow (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477327876, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 September 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages, 10 b\u0026amp;w photos\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.594 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eA conclave of writers gathers to consider the late Larry McMurtry (1936-2021). . . . Sprinkled with surprising revelations, this is a good collection for every McMurtry fan’s library.\u003c\/div\u003e (Kirkus) \u003cdiv\u003eThe elegiac remembrances offer intimate glimpses into McMurtry’s life (collaborator Diana Ossana recalls the “emotional breakdown” he suffered after a heart attack), with no shortage of surprises. . . . McMurtry’s fans will want to track this down.\u003c\/div\u003e (Publishers Weekly) \u003cdiv\u003eMore than three dozen writers contemplate the legacy of Texas’s most beloved author. . . a moving tribute.\u003c\/div\u003e - Andrew Graybill (Texas Monthly) \u003cdiv\u003eMcMurtry, who died in 2021, famously referred to himself as a 'minor regional writer.' In this Festschrift, a host of authors and close friends, including his longtime screenwriting partner Diana Ossana, argue the opposite in essays that celebrate the author’s talents, contributions to literature, and mentoring of other writers.\u003c\/div\u003e (Alta) \u003cdiv\u003eThis book is part eulogy, part memoir, part literary criticism. All of it is absorbing . . . Among the pleasures of \u003ci\u003ePastures of the Empty Page\u003c\/i\u003e are the short biographical sketches of the contributors dangled like literary gifts at the end of each piece.\u003c\/div\u003e (Austin-American Statesman) \u003cdiv\u003eThe essays in Getschow's book consider McMurtry's position in the pantheon of great literature - along with a critical take on how he wrote about minority groups.\u003c\/div\u003e (Axios Dallas) \u003cdiv\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePastures of the Empty Page\u003c\/i\u003e, Getschow defines how each writer, by various avenues, was dealt an education in storytelling by McMurtry, the sensitive but formidable master of chronicling this region’s built and behavioral vernaculars.\u003c\/div\u003e (Patron Magazine) \u003cdiv\u003eOn the whole, the quality of the [contributed] pieces is gratifyingly high.  Some of the richest essays are evocative reminiscences by intimates, among them Ossana, Gregory Curtis, Mike Evans, and Beverly Lowry, all of whom served as sources for Daugherty.\u003c\/div\u003e (The Times Literary Supplement) \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003ePastures of the Empty Page: Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Texas Press) edited by George Getchow, contains essays from a who’s who list of Texas writers about Larry McMurtry’s influence on Texas culture and their lives. It includes an array of reflections on history and the writing process as well as anecdotes about McMurtry’s off-beat and innovative life.\u003c\/div\u003e (Texas Observer) \u003cdiv\u003eFor any writer who writes because they are drawn by some semi-articulable sense of the craft’s Importance (that is to say, most writers) these essays will provide glimpses and quirks and no-bullshit motivations of a literary giant who, as the book hammers home more than any other point, changed the literary landscape and possibilities for Texas . . . The hardest part about reading \u003ci\u003ePastures of the Empty Page\u003c\/i\u003e is never getting to read McMurtry in its pages. Instead, he is the subject of writers plenty capable of stirring something in a reader, so capable that someone reading this collection who has never actually read McMurtry must think that his writing is literal magic, able to do something even more powerful than any of these essays could.\u003c\/div\u003e (D Magazine) \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003ePastures of the Empty Page\u003c\/i\u003e is a revealing and poignant tribute to Larry McMurtry. It is a collection of essays assembled and curated by George Getschow, one of the most Texan non-native Texans I have the pleasure to know.\u003c\/div\u003e (Authorlink: Writers \u0026amp; Readers Magazine) \u003cdiv\u003eThis book articulates…[McMurtry’s] often maddening complexities, while encouraging sustained engagement with his interests and texts.\u003c\/div\u003e (American Literary History)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection of essays that offers an intimate view of Larry McMurtry, America’s preeminent western novelist, through the eyes of a pantheon of writers he helped shape through his work over the course of his unparalleled literary life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When he died in 2021, Larry McMurtry was one of America’s most revered writers. The author of treasured novels such as \u003ci\u003eLonesome Dove \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Last Picture Show\u003c\/i\u003e, and coauthor of the screenplays for \u003ci\u003eBrokeback Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStreets of Laredo\u003c\/i\u003e, McMurtry created unforgettable characters and landscapes largely drawn from his life growing up on the family’s hardscrabble ranch outside his hometown of Archer City, Texas. \u003ci\u003ePastures of the Empty Page\u003c\/i\u003e brings together fellow writers to honor the man and his impact on American letters. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Paulette Jiles, Stephen Harrigan, Stephanie Elizondo Griest, and Lawrence Wright take up McMurtry’s piercing and poetic vision-an elegiac literature of place that demolished old myths of cowboy culture and created new ones. Screenwriting partner Diana Ossana reflects on their thirty-year book and screenwriting partnership; other contributors explore McMurtry’s reading habits and his passion for bookselling. And brother Charlie McMurtry shares memories of their childhood on the ranch. In contrast to his curmudgeonly persona, Larry McMurtry emerges as a trustworthy friend and supportive mentor. McMurtry was famously self-deprecating, but as his admirers attest, this self-described “minor regional writer” was an artist for the ages. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e George Getschow, Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Stephen Graham Jones, Foreword \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e George Getschow, Introduction \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Native Ground \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Charlie McMurtry, In Awesome Wonder \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Paulette Jiles, The Boy with the Lamp \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Skip Hollandsworth, The Larry McMurtry I Knew \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Erik Calonius, The Master Geologist of Archer County \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Joe W. Specht, Larry’\u003cbr\u003es Oil-Patch Legacy \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Teacher and Apprentices \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e William Broyles, Leave His Saddle on the Wall \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Gregory Curtis, McMurtry’\u003cbr\u003es Mild Discouragement \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Mike Evans, “\u003cbr\u003eMike, It’\u003cbr\u003es Larry. I’\u003cbr\u003em in Trouble.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Myth Buster and Myth Maker \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Geoff Dyer, Ranging across Texas \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Doug J. Swanson, Gus, Call, Danny, and the Rangers \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Oscar CÁ\u003cbr\u003esares, Snakes in a River \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Sarah Bird, Finding Home \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Reader and Bookman \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Bill Marvel, Larry McMurtry, Reader \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Greg Giddings, An Afternoon with Larry \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Brandon Kennedy, On Book Scouting and Ghostwritten Erotica \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Stephanie Elizondo Griest, Runaways \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Kathryn Jones, Bonding over Books \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Collaborators and Confidants \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Diana Ossana, Stirring the Memories \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Michael Korda, The Moby-Dick of the Plains \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Carol Flake Chapman, My Long Trail to Lonesome Dove \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Susan Freudenheim, An Unlikely Bond \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Sherry Kafka Wagner, Not So Silent Women \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Beverly Lowry, Scenes from a Friendship \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Katy Vine, Road Trip Tips from Larry McMurtry \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Critic and Champion \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e John Nova Lomax, To Hell with the Sunny Slopes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Jim Black, Writer, Pass By \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Elizabeth Crook, Loving Gus \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Workshopper \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Kathy Floyd, Somewhere, a Writer . . . \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Eric Nishimoto, McMurtry’\u003cbr\u003es Rebuff \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Dianne Solis, At the Intersection of Aspiration and Asphyxiation \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Cathy Booth Thomas, Reckoning at Idiot Ridge \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Dave Tarrant, “\u003cbr\u003eFurthur”\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Legacy \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Stephen Harrigan, Writing Plainly and Unforgettably \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Alfredo Corchado, The Borderlands: A Home for Misfits Like Me and McMurtry’\u003cbr\u003es Danny Deck \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e W. 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