Literary Life: A Second Memoir by McMurtry Larry

Author:McMurtry, Larry [McMurtry, Larry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2010-05-24T04:00:00+00:00

I am sure many writers, when in mid-career, experience these same feelings. You, the writer, will have done enough good work to have acquired some reputation, and yet you haven’t done enough for it to be time to break the pencil (Faulkner’s phrase), even if you could afford to financially, which I can’t and never could have.

Although I think the last sixty pages of Terms of Endearment are among the very best pages I have written, it was while I was writing them that I began to sour on my own work. The minute I finished that book I fell into a literary gloom that lasted from 1975 until 1983, when the miracle of The Desert Rose snapped me out of it. In those years I produced what I consider to be two of my weakest books, Somebody’s Darling and Cadillac Jack .

Somebody’s Darling was my first attempt to deal with Hollywood in my fiction, and has very few fans, although one of the few happens to be my son, which heartens me a good deal.

Cadillac Jack doesn’t have that many fans either, although John Mellencamp is one positive reader for whom I have great respect.

The unexpected arrival of The Desert Rose is a complex miracle, the story of which is best saved for my Hollywood memoir, which should follow close on the heels of this one.

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