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

[Charles Albert]

McMurtry was a frequent contributor to the NYRB.....it's worth paying them
to get into their archives.


love,
cfa


On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 4:51 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, Bogdanovich did a faithful and good job on the movie. I also suggest
> reading McMurty
> on 'the movies', on Hollywood, about that weekend he went to movies all day
> Saturday and Sunday
> in Times Square and wrote about it/them.
>
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 1:55 AM Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > 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!
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