Larry McMurtry Night

We are thrilled to welcome author, director of the Archer City Writers Workshop, and friend of Larry's, George Getschow into the shop in collaboration with the Texas Ten Podcast for an evening discussing the life and legacy of Larry McMurtry. They will be joining us on Thursday, May 15th at 7PM and it is a conversation you do not want to miss!

About George Getschow:

George Getschow is a Pulitzer Prize finalist for National Reporting and winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Award for distinguished writing about the underprivileged. He has earned numerous other awards for his writing and was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters in 2012 for “distinctive literary achievement.” He spent 16 years at The Wall Street Journal as a writer, editor, bureau chief and Mexico correspondent. In 2007, he was awarded a Master of Fine Arts in Writing, Creative Nonfiction, from Spalding University, Louisville, KY.  He spent 12 years serving as writer-in-residence and co-founder of the nationally renowned Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference.  During that same period, he teamed up with Larry McMurtry to conduct writing workshops in McMurtry’s hometown of Archer City, TX. After McMurtry’s death in 2021, Getschow curated and edited Pastures of the Empty Page, an acclaimed literary anthology about Larry McMurtry’s epic life as a cowboy, novelist, screenwriter, and bibliophile. As director of the Archer City Writers Workshop (ACWW), Getschow spearheaded the ACWW’s recent purchase of Booked Up, McMurtry’s internationally renowned bookstore in Archer City, from Chip and Joanna Gaines of Fixer-Upper fame. Getschow and his team are in the process of transforming Booked Up into the Larry McMurtry Literary Center, a premier cultural institution dedicated to preserving McMurtry’s 175,000 book collection and celebrating his epic life and legacy.