{"id":1077,"date":"2018-12-31T15:33:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T15:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2018-12-31T15:33:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T15:33:38","slug":"glenn-dromgooles-texas-reads-column-appears-weekly-at-lonestarliterary-com-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1077","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Dromgoole’s Texas Reads column appears weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span><\/span>Texas Reads<\/span>>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span>Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/h1>\n

10.01.2017\u00a0\u00a0 McMurtry novels reissued in new Texas trilogy<\/h1>\n

W. W. Norton Publishing has brought out a new hardback<\/span> containing the first three novels by Larry McMurtry,<\/span> going back more than fifty years \u2014 Horseman, Pass By<\/span> (1961), Leaving Cheyenne<\/span> (1962), and The Last Picture Show<\/span> (1966).<\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/span>The handsome volume, totaling more than 700 pages, is titled Thalia: A Texas Trilogy<\/span> and is priced at $29.95.<\/p>\n

It includes a foreword by McMurtry reflecting on his earliest works.<\/p>\n

McMurtry notes that after World War II, \u201cmuch of America began an exodus from the small towns to the cities,\u201d and as he wrote those three novels, it was clear to him that he \u201cwas witnessing the dying of \u2026 the rural, pastoral way of life\u201d as well as the passing of the mythical cowboy.<\/p>\n

Horseman, Pass By<\/span> was made into a movie titled , as was The Last Picture Show,<\/span> set in the fictional small town of Thalia, much like the town of Archer City, where McMurtry grew up. Decades later, he returned to Archer City, where he lives today, and moved his legendary Booked Up collection of used, rare, and scholarly books there from Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

Although he sold off a large number of volumes five years ago in a celebrated auction, the bookshop is alive and well, according to the bookedupac.com<\/span><\/a><\/span> web site. \u201cRumors that we have moved or been sold are pernicious nonsense! We are right where we have been for so long \u2014 on Main Street in Archer City,\u201d McMurtry writes on the web site. Booked Up is open from 1 to 5 p.m. Thursday through Saturday.<\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>More from Ransom Canyon:<\/span> Regular readers of this column know that I\u2019m a big fan of Amarillo novelist Jodi Thomas,<\/span> especially for her Harmony and now her Ransom Canyon series. The latest from Ransom Canyon is Indigo Lake<\/span> (Harlequin, $7.99 paperback) featuring Blade Hamilton, a federal agent who finds himself in Crossroads, Texas, on personal business and gets caught up in an arson case that escalates to murder. And, against his better judgment, he is smitten by sweet young Dakota Davis. Problem is, Hamiltons and Davises have feuded for years.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the sheriff\u2019s daughter, Lauren Brigman, is trying to figure out, at age 27, what she wants to do with her life. Is her heart really at home in Crossroads? And has her heart ever gotten over the friend she has loved for years, Lucas Reyes, now a successful big city lawyer?<\/p>\n

Indigo Lake<\/span> is the sixth book in the Ransom Canyon series. They\u2019re all good stories with some romance, some mystery, but not rough language.<\/p>\n

Glenn Dromgoole\u2019s<\/span> latest book is West Texas Stories<\/span><\/a><\/span>Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/p>\n

>> Read his past Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Literary Life here.<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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