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Confessions of a maddog : a romp through the high-flying Texas music and literary era of the fifties to the seventies /

Once upon a time there was an innocent lad from West Texas who wrote a novel and fell in with a rabble of Texas writers as they were bridging the literary gap between J. Frank Dobie and his paisanos and the current bumper crop of Texas writers who seem to be everywhere writing about everything. This...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Milner, Jay Dunston, 1923-2011
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, ©1998.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Larry L. King
  • Maddog, Inc.
  • A Little Background Music, Please
  • Big Daddy and Me
  • Secret Urges
  • Hodding Carter, a Damn Good Reporter
  • Stanley Walker, Baron of Black Sheep's Retreat
  • Good Ole Billie Lee
  • Edwin (Bud) Shrake, Pied Piper of Wildcat Hollow
  • Literary Giants and William Randolph Hearse
  • Larry L. King, The Writer from Texas, Not the Guy on TV
  • Gary Cartwright and June Allyson
  • Not Enough Women to Go Around?
  • Austin and Its Music
  • Stumbling Toward a Fall
  • The Rise and Fall of an Expert Listener
  • The Best Years?
  • Recovering in Lufkin
  • Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries.