Reading: Larry McMurtry

Presenter Information

Larry McMurtry

Location

Memorial Union Ballroom

Event Website

http://www.undwritersconference.org

Start Date

17-3-1987 8:00 PM

End Date

17-3-1987 9:00 PM

Description

In this audiovisual recording from Tuesday, March 17, 1987, as part of the 18th Annual UND Writers Conference: “Writers of the Purple Sage,” Larry McMurtry reads from All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers and Lonesome Dove. McMurty also responds to audience questions concerning the adaptation of his work into film, his forthcoming novel Texasville, his Western settings, the early stages of Lonesome Dove, his interest in the period of trail driving, and generating and developing characters.

Introduced by Laurel Reuter, Founding Director of the North Dakota Museum of Art.

Note: A section of the reading is interrupted.

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Mar 17th, 8:00 PM Mar 17th, 9:00 PM

Reading: Larry McMurtry

Memorial Union Ballroom

In this audiovisual recording from Tuesday, March 17, 1987, as part of the 18th Annual UND Writers Conference: “Writers of the Purple Sage,” Larry McMurtry reads from All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers and Lonesome Dove. McMurty also responds to audience questions concerning the adaptation of his work into film, his forthcoming novel Texasville, his Western settings, the early stages of Lonesome Dove, his interest in the period of trail driving, and generating and developing characters.

Introduced by Laurel Reuter, Founding Director of the North Dakota Museum of Art.

Note: A section of the reading is interrupted.

https://commons.und.edu/writers-conference/1987/day1/2