Fans of the sci-fi and Western genres should acquaint themselves with underrated shows like Outer Range, Killjoys, and ...

The sci-fi Western Defiance, starring Grant Bowler and Stephanie Leonidas, is an inventive SyFy series that was compelling ...

Larry McMurtry, the famed Texas novelist, screenwriter and bookseller, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his book "Lonesome Dove," at his bookstore, Booked Up No. 1. The Wild West provides the backdrop for ...

Since 1965, Western American Literature has been the leading peer-reviewed journal in the literary and cultural study of the North American West, defined broadly to include western Canada and northern ...

Born in Indiana in 1859, writer Andy Adams lived the cowboy life on the Texas plains. He later rendered those experiences in fiction to set Americans straight about life in the West. Adams arrived in ...

You know Elmore Leonard for his screenplay-perfect crime novels, including Get Shorty, but when "Dutch" started writing, around 1950, what paid (2 cents a word) was Western fiction, and the dozens of ...

Earlier this week, I published a story about Kevin Barry, the Booker Award-nominated Irish author whose terrific new book, “The Heart in Winter,” is a Western set in Montana circa 1891. But while ...

As a young man in the early 1960s, Peter Oresick stopped at his local library and borrowed a copy of “Request for Sherwood Anderson,” a story collection by fellow Ford City native Frank Brookhouser.