The Love Song of Larry J. McMurtry: The Last Picture Show
by Greg Giddings, Midwestern State University (Originally published in JASAT) In 1966, Larry McMurtry (in)famously dedicated his third novel with these words: “The Last Picture Show is lovingly dedicated to my home town.” Both readers and commentators through the years have assumed that McMurtry was speaking ironically in that dedication, as McMurtry’s description of Thalia,…