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Movie Review: Quigley Down Under

DIRECTOR: Simon Wincer STARS: Tom Selleck, Alan Rickman and Laura San Giacomo RELEASE DATE: 1990 LENGTH: 119 minutes “Quigley Down Under” is why there is Saturday afternoon television. If you find yourself on a lazy, rainy, Saturday afternoon, planted on your most comfortable couch and flicking through the channels to see what’s on, and you

Forum Featuring C. Wayne Winkle

When — and why — did you first fall in love with Westerns? I was raised around Westerns. Both my mom and dad watched them. This was in the 1950s when they were so popular. Saturday mornings were spent watching all the Westerns on the first TV we got. Even after I left home, Mom

The Californian Mustanger

Jim Burnett and I have worked on a couple of projects together, including each contributing a short to a project he spearheaded, “Guide My Hand, Precious Lord,” a series of religious-based Western short stories. We’ve never had a chance to meet, but have spoken and written quite a bit, and while we differ on some

Mile 24: Delete Key

It is my experience that for many writers the “delete” key is either the most over- or under-utilized key on the keyboard. Allow me to offer these words of advice. Don’t be so hard on yourself that you overuse the delete key, thinking nothing (or very little) that you write deserves to ever be read.

Book Review: El Charro

Charro! is a book I normally wouldn’t have read, but it came recommended by a friend of mine Paul Bishop, who loves – and is an expert on – old pulp Westerns. Paul and I co-wrote a book 52 Weeks * 52 Western Novels where we highlighted 52 different Western, all 250 pages or less.

Booke Review: El Charro

Charro! is a book I normally wouldn’t have read, but it came recommended by a friend of mine Paul Bishop, who loves – and is an expert on – old pulp Westerns. Paul and I co-wrote a book 52 Weeks * 52 Western Novels where we highlighted 52 different Western, all 250 pages or less.

Forum Featuring Stephen Burckhardt

When — and why — did you first fall in love with Westerns? I have to admit I didn’t really start reading Westerns until recently, but I have been a Western movie fan for as long as I can remember. I used to stay up late with my mom watching movies on the “Late Late

Flynn

I hadn’t read any of Ken Farmer’s books, but I’ve been following him for a bit. He was nice enough to contact me about another project, and I took the opportunity to ask him which of his books would be a good one to start with. He suggested Flynn, the eighth book in his “The

Mile 23: Aspects of the Novel

Back on Mile 2, I wrote about the author’s guide; Ernest Hemingway on Writing. The book was useful on a variety level, is one I’ve already read twice and plan on reading a third time. Mile 23 is about E.M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel. It is considered by many critics to be a, if

Book Review: For Cause and Comrades

Today’s Monday Western Review is a little different than my normal offering, on two counts. First, it’s nonfiction, and second, it’s about the Civil War, which for reasons that escape me, is generally not considered to be “Western.” I host a monthly book club, where each month we explore a different chapter from Shelby Foote’s