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McMurtry revisits American West in newest book Associated Press Writer
ARCHER CITY, Texas — Standing among the towering shelves in his bookstore in the small Texas town where he grew up, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry says he has a need to be among books. “I’m very attached to the books. I need them. I need to be among them,” said McMurtry, 77, whose rare and used bookstore in Archer City contains about 200,000 volumes, while the library in his nearby home holds about 28,000. McMurtry is the author of almost 50 books including the novels “Lonesome Dove,” ‘’The Last Picture Show” and “Terms of Endearment,” and biographies and essay collections. He has had simultaneous careers as a screenwriter and bookseller. In his new novel, “The Last Kind Words Saloon,” he again takes readers to the American West — this time peeking into the lives of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday as they ramble through Texas, Colorado and Arizona. “I usually start a book with some notion about a character that I’m curious about or interested in,” McMurtry said in an interview. “And I think that’s what I did here. I kind of wanted to demythologize” Earp and Holliday. “’Lonesome Dove’ was an effort to kind of demythologize the
myth of the Old West, but it kind of came to people won’t let you. They’re going to twist it into something romantic no matter what you do.” McMurtry spoke Wednesday night — in what likely will be his only public appearance for the book — as part of the Dallas Museum of Art’s “Arts & Letters Live” speakers series. He divides his time between Tucson, Arizona, and Archer City, a wind-swept town with a population of about 1,800 located about 140 miles northwest of Dallas. “My gig in Dallas is my book tour for this one,” he said. Beth Wasson, who attended the museum event, said she couldn’t miss an opportunity to see one of her favorite authors in person. She said she enjoys his
books for his character development and is in awe of his ability to write about both modern day and the Old West. “Just the titles of his books tell a story,” she said. “The Last Kind Words Saloon” features historical figures including Earp, Holliday, Buffalo Bill Cody and Charles Goodnight, along with fictional characters such as journalist Nellie Courtright, who appeared in his novel “Telegraph Days.” McMurtry said he enjoys revisiting characters, including Earp and Holliday. “That’s fun, to go back and see your characters at different stages of their lives,” he said, noting that he followed the characters from “The Last Picture Show” through several books, marking their transformation from teenagers to old men. Andrew Graybill, director of the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University, said McMurtry cleverly brings together famous characters of the American West in his new book. “Putting them on the stage together at the same time — I think it’s a wonderful way to undercut and subvert these myths,” said Graybill, who introduced McMurtry at the Dallas event.
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Page 13 A woman makes wooden sculpture with batik pattern in her workshop. Entrepreneur need to be creative to survive the Asean Economic Community that will be applying in 2015.
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This book cover image released by Liveright shows “The Last Kind Words,” by Larry McMurtry.
Picasso’s ‘The Rescue’ auctioned for $31.5M
NEW YORK — Pablo Picasso’s colorful 1932 oil painting “The Rescue” sold for $31.5 million at a New York auction Wednesday, far exceeding its $14 million to $18 million estimate. “The Rescue” led the bidding at a Sotheby’s sale of impressionist and modern art. The auction house sold 50 pieces, raising about $219 million. It was the second straight night a painting by the Cubist master changed hands for a big price. Picasso’s 1942 painting of his mistress in a purple dress titled “Portrait of Dora Maar” sold Tuesday for $22.5 million at Christie’s. Henri Matisse’s “Morning Session,” a 1924 oil of the artist’s assistant, Henriette Darricarrere, sold for $19.2 million on Wednesday. Claude Monet’s “Japanese Bridge” went for $15.8 million while his “On the Cliff at Pourville” netted $8.2 million. Wednesday’s sale featured four sculptures and an oil painting by Alberto Giacometti. His multi-figural sculpture “City Square” sold for $13 million. Another sculpture, “Woman of Venice V” fetched $8.8 million. Sotheby’s also has three works by Joan Miro that languished in a New York vault
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Facing AEC 2015
Entrepreneurs challenge to be creative Bali Post
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FILE – In this May 2, 2014 file photo, a woman browses various impressionistic paintings during a preview exhibition for Sotheby’s Spring Evening Sale of impressionistic and modern art, in New York. for 50 years. The Spanish artist created them for the filmmaker and photographer Thomas Bouchard and his daughter Diane. “Untitled, 1947,” depicting colorful anthropomorphic forms on a rich blue background, sold for $8 million. The other two Miro works are set to go under the hammer at Sotheby’s day
sale Thursday. The prices included the buyer’s premium. The spring auction season in New York shifted to Sotheby’s after an auction Tuesday at Christie’s, which featured works from the estates of heiress Huguette Clark, businessman Edgar Bronfman and other collectors.
DENPASAR - Entrepreneurs of Indonesia, especially Bali, must train and forge themselves in order to fortify themselves when the AEC 2015 has applied. At that time, cheap products will invade Bali so the ability of employers or entrepreneurs will be tested. “People of Indonesia and Bali in particular should be ready to face the AEC that will be definitely implemented in 2015. However, the handicraft of Indonesia can still compete against the products of other countries,” said the Board of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce (Kadin) of Bali, Gede Semadi Putra. The handicrafts, said Semadi, included batik, endek, and songket clothes. Those handicraft products could have not been made in other countries. With the enforcement of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), he hoped and believed that local craftsmen would be more developed. Other than the products of the ASEAN member countries were free to enter Indonesia,
on the contrary, the Indonesian products would be also free to enter the ASEAN countries. “Here, the ability of the entrepreneurs will be tested. So, it must be attempted in order we will not be deceived by the outsiders,” he said. Semadi hoped after the enforcement of the AEC, the turnover of the local creative industry could grow and become one of the driving forces of the economic development. “Thus, whether we are ready or not, we have to deal with every effort, such as by implementing competency test pursuant to the international standards in all sectors,” he said.
In terms of developer, Semadi doubling as the board of the Real Estate Indonesia (REI) of Bali Chapter hoped the government to make a regulation on the ownership by foreigners, provided that it was not a pure property rights. “For example, the period is specified for a maximum of 90 years. So, the real estate business will be excited,” he said. Meanwhile, Kenny C., an owner of travel agency, revealed that to face the AEC, the people of Indonesia should have a breakthrough and innovation that could not be replicated by other countries. On that account, the domestic products, especially local products, would be favored by foreign consumers. To that end, the government should work harder to prepare the public to face the free market. “Hopefully, the AEC will have a positive impact on Indonesia, especially Bali. Moreover, some of the Bali local products have been exposed to several countries and they can continue to increase,” he said. (kmb36)