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Stories he tells aren''t cheery.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 31-JAN-03
Format: Online - approximately 586 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Stories he tells aren''t cheery.(Entertainment)

Article Excerpt
Byline: LEWIS TAYLOR The Register-Guard

On "Choctaw Bingo," an eight-minute audio journey through rural Texas and Oklahoma, James McMurtry sings of a father who dreams of molesting the cousins and an uncle who has turned his home distillery into a meth lab.

"It's not very easy to write about happy people," McMurtry told National Public Radio's Steve Inskeep in an interview last November, "and I don't think they need to be written about anyway. They're happy enough already."

The son of the novelist Larry McMurtry, James McMurtry...

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