Larry McMurtry, the famed Texas novelist, screenwriter and bookseller, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his book "Lonesome Dove," at his bookstore, Booked Up No. 1. The Wild West provides the backdrop for ...

Author of western fiction and East Texas A&M University alum Reavis Z. Wortham visited his alma mater earlier this month to share excerpts from his newest novel as well as his experiences as a ...

You know Elmore Leonard for his screenplay-perfect crime novels, including Get Shorty, but when "Dutch" started writing, around 1950, what paid (2 cents a word) was Western fiction, and the dozens of ...

Further reading suggestions: “Deadwood” by Pete Dexter, “The Plague of Doves” by Louise Erdrich, “Wounded” by Percival Everett, “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter” by Stephen Graham Jones , “Lone Women” by ...

Although Western novels started losing readers in the sixties, don’t blame the waning interest on Texas writers, who have since provided the flagging genre some of its best moments. Larry McMurtry’s ...

Round up a passel of publishers of Christian historical fiction these days and you’ll notice something interesting: A large number of westerns—novels set in the Wild West of the past complete with ...

As a young man in the early 1960s, Peter Oresick stopped at his local library and borrowed a copy of “Request for Sherwood Anderson,” a story collection by fellow Ford City native Frank Brookhouser.

Superhumans of the Radium Age edited by Joshua Glenn (MIT) Part of the Radium Age series — reissues and anthologies of ...