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Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
353 kr
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A collection of essays that offers an intimate view of Larry McMurtry, America’s preeminent western novelist, through the eyes of a pantheon of writers he helped shape through his work over the course of his unparalleled literary life.When he died in 2021, Larry McMurtry was one of America’s most revered writers. The author of treasured novels such as Lonesome Dove and The Last Picture Show, and coauthor of the screenplays for Brokeback Mountain and Streets of Laredo, McMurtry created unforgettable characters and landscapes largely drawn from his life growing up on the family’s hardscrabble ranch outside his hometown of Archer City, Texas. Pastures of the Empty Page brings together fellow writers to honor the man and his impact on American letters. Paulette Jiles, Stephen Harrigan, Stephanie Elizondo Griest, and Lawrence Wright take up McMurtry’s piercing and poetic vision-an elegiac literature of place that demolished old myths of cowboy culture and created new ones. Screenwriting partner Diana Ossana reflects on their thirty-year book and screenwriting partnership; other contributors explore McMurtry’s reading habits and his passion for bookselling. And brother Charlie McMurtry shares memories of their childhood on the ranch. In contrast to his curmudgeonly persona, Larry McMurtry emerges as a trustworthy friend and supportive mentor. McMurtry was famously self-deprecating, but as his admirers attest, this self-described “minor regional writer” was an artist for the ages.
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
246 kr
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This anthology collects the ten winners of the 2012 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest at the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, which is hosted by the Frank W. Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism at the University of North Texas, USA. The contest honors exemplary narrative work and encourages narrative nonfiction storytelling at newspapers across the United States.
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
277 kr
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This anthology collects the twelve winners of the 2013 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest, run by the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. The event is hosted by the Frank W. Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism at the University of North Texas. The contest honors exemplary narrative work and encourages narrative nonfiction storytelling at newspapers across the United States.First place winner: Eli Saslow, “Into the Lonely Quiet” (Washington Post), follows the family of a 7-year-old victim of the December 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, six months after the shooting.Second place: Eric Moskowitz, “Marathon Carjacking” (Boston Globe), is the story of “Danny,”who was carjacked by the suspects of the Boston Marathon bombing three days after the bombing.Third place: Mark Johnson, “The Course of Their Lives”(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel), an account of first-year medical students as they take a human dissection course.Runners-up include Christopher Goffard, “The Manhunt”(Los Angeles Times); Stephanie McCrummen, “Wait - You Described It as a Cloudy Feeling?”(Washington Post); Michael M. Phillips, “The Lobotomy Files”(Wall Street Journal); Aaron Applegate, “Taken Under”(Virginian-Pilot); Meg Kissinger, “A Mother, at Her Wits' End”(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel); Michael Kruse, “The Last Voyage of the Bounty”(Tampa Bay Times); Shaun McKinnon, “Alone on the Hill”(Arizona Republic); Mike Newall, “Almost Justice”(Philadelphia Inquirer); and Sarah Schweitzer, “Together, Despite All”(Boston Globe).