About two months ago, I called Shauna Glenn my new favorite writer. I’m a sucker for funny stories about marital aids. What can I say? (And to set the record straight, as I had to with Shauna at a recent Dallas Press Club happy hour, she is not my favorite writer, period. Even though she let me have one of her cheese fries. No, she was my new favorite writer back in May. I’m fickle and have moved on. Shauna and I are working through this difficult period in our relationship.) In any case, if you are similarly entertained by people who write saucy things, you ought to stop by Legacy Books tomorrow at 7 p.m., when Shauna will read from her book Heaping Spoonful.
After reading our story on Larry McMurtry and Archer City, a book-loving FBvian recalls her own encounter with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author:
[My husband] and I have been to McMurtry’s book stores and enjoyed the trip. We also managed to catch him ambling out of one of the stores and spoke to him. We gave him our biggest grins and hellos, but he ducked his head, mumbled and slunk around the corner. Maybe he thought we were local aliens.
Late in June, Glenn wrote about his adventures in Branson, Missouri, where he went to see country-and-western legends Merle Haggard and Gene Watson. Well, our cerebral adventurer recently returned from Archer City, home of famed author Larry McMurtry (and his four used-book stores) and site of a week-long summer class about narrative nonfiction writing at UNT’s Mayborn Graduate School of Journalism, under the direction of Mayborn writer-in-residence George Getschow. Here’s Glenn’s report.