The Last Picture Show – Larry McMurtry

General Resources:

• Buy The Last Picture Show

• Watch The Last Picture Show (1973, Dir. Peter Bogdanovich) for free

• Larry McMurtry- Wikipedia entry

• Obituary by Dwight Garner for New York Times

• Larry McMurtry: National Humanities Medal (2014) from National Endowment for the Humanities

Online Articles:

• • New York Times book review by Thomas Lask

  • "The Larry McMurtry I Knew" by Skip Hollandsworth for Texas Monthly

  • "McMurtry's 'Literary Life': Not Simple, But Practical" from NPR's Morning Edition

  • "Remembering Larry McMurtry, A Writer Who Helped Define The American West" from NPR's Fresh Air

  • "The Underappreciated Genius of Larry McMurtry" by Kyle Smith for National Review

Critical Articles: 

• "Coming of Age in Texas: The Novels of Larry McMurtry" - Charles D Peavy

• "Journeying as a Metaphor for Cultural Loss in the Novels of Larry McMurtry" - Janis P. Stout

• "Larry McMurtry and Black Humor: A Note on The Last Picture Show" - Charles D. Peavy

• "Recommended: Larry McMurtry" - Don Melichar

• "Which is the Real Last Picture Show?" - Robert Wilson