Hollywood
A Third Memoir

Though probably best known for his fiction of the old and contemporary west, Larry McMurtry really had three very successful, albeit overlapping, careers: novelist, scriptwriter for Hollywood movies and television, and antiquarian book collector. Credit must be given to authorship as the first of th......more

This book, his last in the memoir triumvirate, ("Books & Literary Life") celebrates the Hollywood of the 60's, 70's, 80's & beyond as told from an outlier screenwriter's tale. His first book "Horseman, Pass by" was made into a the film "Hud" starring Paul Newman and this began his long running relat......more

3.5 stars. My least favorite of the three memoirs but still full of McMurtry goodness.......more

How somebody from a parched, wind-swept and desolate Texas town & adjacent ranch becomes so enamored with literary pursuits is a fortunate but mysterious thing. If your writing oeuvre includes scripts such as Hud, Lonesome Dove, Brokeback Mountain, Terms of Endearment, and The Last Picture Show, you......more

McMurtry is one of my all-time favorite authors. Hollywood is the third book in his autobiographical trilogy; of the three it is by far the best. When I first learned Larry was sub-dividing his life story I suspected it was some sort of scam to sell more books - kind of a one story for the price of......more