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The Latest Breaking News from Larry McMurtry

Readers’ top 100 novels cause a stir

Letters: Letter writers challenge what appears and what doesn’t

The Guardian - UK · Jun 12

The Aesthete from Archer

A new biography of Larry McMurtry tells the tale of a writer ever met with misreading.

Texas Observer · May 6

Texas History Offers Warnings amid Rash of Faculty Firings

Lessons to learn from the politically motivated firing of a UT president in the 1940s

Texas Observer · Sep 23, 2025

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Texas Shouldn’t Legislate Censorship

Public libraries are for the public—and that means access for all.

Texas Observer · Apr 28, 2025

Texas Mother-Daughter Books Are More a Shot of Whiskey than a Sip of Tea

Undoubtedly, mother-daughter relationships are as varied in the Lone Star State as anywhere else on the planet, but in my experience, Texas moms are tough.

Texas Observer · Feb 28, 2024

The Texas Observer’s 2023 Must-Read Lone Star Books

From poetic dreamworlds to the people’s hospital, Texas authors paint very different portraits of our diverse state.

Texas Observer · Dec 13, 2023

The Lonesome Writing Guru

How the Texas author—and an editor of a new book of essays about him—helped shepherd a Lone Star literary community.

Texas Observer · Oct 4, 2023

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‘We used to agree on who we trust. Now we don’t’: James L Brooks on truth, The Simpsons and adapting Judy Blume

As the pioneering film-maker finally brings Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret to the screen, he reflects on his glittering career, why Terms of Endearment made him cry and how Broadcast News predicted the future

The Guardian - UK · May 12, 2023

Larry McMurtry auction to include 14 typewriters, animal skulls, his personal book copies

DALLAS — It’s an auction of just about 400 of legendary Texas author Larry McMurtry’s personal belongings from Archer City and it promises to be no ordinary estate sale.

Tribune News Service · Mar 15, 2023

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