附註:Includes index.
Foreword / Larry L. King -- Maddog, Inc. -- A Little Background Music, Please -- Big Daddy and Me -- Secret Urges -- Hodding Carter, a Damn Good Reporter -- Stanley Walker, Baron of Black Sheep's Retreat -- Good Ole Billie Lee -- Edwin (Bud) Shrake, Pied Piper of Wildcat Hollow -- Literary Giants and William Randolph Hearse -- Larry L. King, The Writer from Texas, Not the Guy on TV -- Gary Cartwright and June Allyson -- Not Enough Women to Go Around? -- Austin and Its Music -- Stumbling Toward a Fall -- The Rise and Fall of an Expert Listener -- The Best Years? -- Recovering in Lufkin -- Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries.
摘要:Once upon a time there was an innocent lad from West Texas who wrote a novel and fell in with a rabble of Texas writers as they were bridging the literary gap between J. Frank Dobie and his paisanos and the current bumper crop of Texas writers who seem to be everywhere writing about everything. This rowdy rabble of gap bridgers bonded in a sort of literary and social club they called Maddog Inc. (Motto: Doing indefinable services to mankind.) But our hero managed to live through it all anyway. This is his story.
