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 ...

David Streitfeld’s impressive new biography, Western Star, has a subtitle that alludes to a notable part of his story: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry. Note that word, “legends.” It is more ...

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." ...

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 ...

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 ...

Larry McMurtry has been called many things—the Melville of the American West, the Flaubert of the frontier, the Tolstoy of the plains. These are weighty comparisons, and they probably have more to do ...

Inside a one-story brick building at the center of Archer City’s main commercial street, surrounded by rows upon rows of rare books, George Getschow feels the presence of Larry McMurtry more than ever ...

Larry McMurtry was the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Lonesome Dove." He won an Oscar for co-writing the screenplay for "Brokeback Mountain," and he founded a bookstore in his hometown, Archer City ...