Max Byrd
"Larry McMurtry possesses one of the most engaging, tempting-to-imitate voices in contemporary American fiction, a voice so smooth and mellow you can almost hear the ice clink against the glass as he talks."
Michael Lindgren
"Those who enjoy McMurtry’s rueful humor and understated tone of elegiac melancholy will devour the book in one setting."
Seattle Times - Adam Woog
"[The Last Kind Words Saloon] is never dull, and it’s also very funny. As always, McMurtry's characters are plain-spoken but subtle and full of dry humor…Moseying along with McMurtry is always worthwhile."
New York Review of Books - Joyce Carol Oates
"A deftly narrated, often comically subversive work of fiction… If Lonesome Dove is a chronicle of the cattle-driving West that contains within its vast, broad ranges a small but heartrending intimate tragedy of paternal neglect, The Last Kind Words Saloon is a dark postmodernist modernist comedy."
People - Richard Eisenberg
"In this ‘ballad in prose,’ as McMurtry describes his latest book, he paints the familiar historical characters in unfamiliar ways… lovely."
Seattle Times - Adam Wong
"[The Last Kind Words Saloon] is never dull, and it’s also very funny. As always, McMurtry’s characters are plain-spoken but subtle and full of dry humor… Moseying along with McMurtry is always worthwhile."
Boston Globe - Laura Collins-Hughes
"Such a comfortable Western that Sam Elliott might as well be narrating it directly into your ear. McMurtry intersperses comedy and romance…And once again, he's written some smart, tough women and a bunch of men who have no idea what to make of them."
Brain Pickings - Maria Popova
"[A] wildly worthy addition to the best art books of 2014… 33 Artists in 3 Acts is a superb read…"
The Onion - Nathan Pensky
"The Last Kind Words Saloon is a beautiful, dreamy, deeply melancholy book, connecting legend and disparate threads of history in a seamless pastiche of tall tales drawn against the context of their real circumstances."