Texas Literary Outlaws: Six Writers in the Sixties and BeyondTexas A&M University Press, 15.08.2017 - 512 Seiten At the height of the sixties, a group of Texas writers stood apart from Texas’ conservative establishment. Calling themselves the Mad Dogs, these six writers—Bud Shrake, Larry L. King, Billy Lee Brammer, Gary Cartwright, Dan Jenkins, and Peter Gent—closely observed the effects of the Vietnam War; the Kennedy assassination; the rapid population shift from rural to urban environments; Lyndon Johnson’s rise to national prominence; the Civil Rights Movement; Tom Landry and the Dallas Cowboys; Willie Nelson, Jerry Jeff Walker, the new Outlaw music scene; the birth of a Texas film industry; Texas Monthly magazine; the flowering of “Texas Chic”; and Ann Richards’ election as governor. In Texas Literary Outlaws, Steven L. Davis makes extensive use of untapped literary archives to weave a fascinating portrait of writers who came of age during a period of rapid social change. With Davis’s eye for vibrant detail and a broad historical perspective, Texas Literary Outlaws moves easily between H. L. Hunt’s Dallas mansion and the West Texas oil patch, from the New York literary salon of Elaine’s to the Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin, from Dennis Hopper on a film set in Mexico to Jerry Jeff Walker crashing a party at Princeton University. The Mad Dogs were less interested in Texas’ mythic past than in the world they knew firsthand—a place of fast-growing cities and hard-edged political battles. The Mad Dogs crashed headfirst into the sixties, and their legendary excesses have often overshadowed their literary production. Davis never shies away from criticism in this no-holds-barred account, yet he also shows how the Mad Dogs’ rambunctious personae have deflected a true understanding of their deeper aims. Despite their popular image, the Mad Dogs were deadly serious as they turned their gaze on their home state, and they chronicled Texas culture with daring, wit, and sophistication. |
Inhalt
Preface | |
Texas Literary Outlaws | |
PART ONEComing of Age in Texas | |
A Rebel in West Texas | |
A Texas Oasis | |
The Gay Place | |
Fort Worths New Journalism 5 The Texas Beats | |
Big D Meets the Flying Punzars | |
PART THREETexas Chic? | |
A New View of Texas | |
The Cowboy Professor | |
Live Music Capital | |
North Dallas Forty | |
The Regenerator Erection Laboratory | |
Challenging Texas | |
Changes at Sports Illustrated | |
A Gathering Force | |
A Long Way from Beaumont | |
Dallas 1963 | |
PART TWOToo Much Aint Enough | |
A New Beginning | |
The Doors of Perception | |
Literary Comanches | |
These Happy Occasions | |
The OneEyed | |
Cowboys and Indians | |
Harpers on the Rise | |
Obscure Famous Arthurs | |
Absurdism in the Southwest | |
Busted in the Oasis | |
Harvards White Racist | |
Land of the Permanent Wave | |
Mad Dog Texas | |
Kings Road | |
Outlaws | |
Hack Observations and Literary Feuds | |
Redneck Hippies | |
Strange Peaches | |
SemiTough | |
Texas Gonzo Journalist | |
Texas Brain | |
LBJ Speed and Paranoia | |
Hollywood vs Sports Illustrated | |
Whorehouse | |
A Fraction of His Talent | |
Measures of Success | |
Hitting the Wall | |
A Recovery | |
Ever a Bridegroom | |
Third Coast | |
Faces in the Fire | |
PART FOURHow Time Slips Away | |
Jenkins | |
King | |
Cartwright | |
Shrake | |
Doing Indefinable Services to Mankind | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
American Austin became become began Bill Brammer Billy Clyde Billy Lee Brammer Blessed McGill Blockhead Brammer Archives Broyles Bud Shrake Cartwright interview Clippings file Confessions critical Dallas Cowboys Dallas Morning Dan Jenkins Dobie Don Meredith editor fiction film football friends Gary Cartwright Gay Place Gent’s Harper’s Heartwiseguy Hollywood Ibid Jay Milner Jenkins Jenkins’s journalism journalist Kennedy King Archives King interview King wrote King’s Laguerre Larry L Larry McMurtry later LBJ’s letters literary living Lyndon Johnson MacCambridge Mad Dog magazine magazine’s McMurtry’s movie Nadine newspaper novel novelist Peter Gent play players political Press published readers Reinert reporter Ronnie Dugger screenplay Semi-Tough Sherrod Shrake and Cartwright Shrake Archives Shrake interview Southwestern Writers Collection Sports Illustrated star state’s story Strange Peaches SWWC Texans Texas Monthly Texas Observer Texas State University-San Texas writers Texas’s told University-San Marcos White Racist Whorehouse Willie Morris Willie Nelson Worth York