Destination: Texas
Writer: Larry McMurtry (Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show)
A GUEST POST by Ruth Pennebaker
I feel so fortunate to have Ruth Pennebaker, a Texan through and through, as our guest today. Continue reading The Road Trip Stops in McMurtry’s Texas
Destination: Texas
Book: In a Narrow Grave by Larry McMurtry
My recent road trip took me to Texas, and I found only one writer to be essential.
Thirty years ago James Michener would have been our guide to Texas. He wove careful research into characters and a story line, and he wrote about Hawaii, the Caribbean, Mexico, Alaska, and a Texas-sized book called TEXAS.
Before that, Edna Ferber wrote the book made into the 1956 hit movie Giant which fixed an image of Texas in everyone’s minds for a decade or so. Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and Jimmy Dean Continue reading Who Writes Texas?
As I was thinking about departing from my usual posts about travel literature, I came across an excellent post by Almost Fearless on guidebooks. As she points out, they do have a purpose. And I am addicted to guidebooks, so I don’t want their absence on this site to lead anyone to think I do not respect guidebooks. I just focus here on the literature that goes into the traveler’s library.
But as I am still thinking about American road trips, I thought I should mention road guide series that can be very helpful to those who follow the Larry McMurtry route in his book Roads, and follow the freeways.