(np) interesting stuff about that Larry McMurtry, Mark!

[Michael Bailey]

Mark Kohut shared that Larry McMurtry (1936-2021) wrote impressively about
women.

Requiescat in pace as Dave Monroe (requiescat in pace) used to say…

Saw The Last Picture Show, but haven’t read any of his work. The more fool
I!

 He had a great big bookstore.

After we watched The Last Picture Show my dorm
roommate who was Catholic said it was a shame that wife went to bed with
that kid, “she had a good thing going with her marriage,” and I, a little
surprised that anyone would think that, said a couple things like it wasn’t
that great of a marriage though…

What I walked away with in mind was that little kid with the turned around
cap, the name “Sam the Lion” (cool sobriquet, nicht wahr?) who reminded me
later of the proprietor of this coffee shop I used to sit in and write
crappy prose by the hour because of a sweet waitress, and Cybill Shepherd
saying to the guy who’s making a big deal out of them having gone to a
motel and done it, “I’ll bet you didn’t even do it right!”

So if the movie was that memorable (3 items held since 1973, 4 if you count
Ron’s reaction) I imagine the books to be even better.

Good on ya, Mark, for diversifying the stacks!