{"product_id":"the-best-i-recall-gary-cartwright-9780292749078","title":"The Best I Recall: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eGary Cartwright is one of Texas's legendary writers. In a career spanning nearly six decades, he has been a newspaper reporter, Senior Editor of \u003ci\u003eTexas Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e, and author of several acclaimed books, including \u003ci\u003eBlood Will Tell\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eConfessions of a Washed-up Sportswriter\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDirty Dealing\u003c\/i\u003e. Cartwright was a finalist for a National Magazine Award for reporting excellence, and he has won several awards from the Texas Institute of Letters, including its most prestigious--the Lon Tinkle Award for lifetime achievement. His personal life has been as colorful and occasionally outrageous as any story he reported, and in this vivid, often hilarious, and sometimes deeply moving memoir, Cartwright tells the story of his writing career, tangled like a runaway vine with great friendships, love affairs, four marriages, four or five great dogs . . . looking always to explain, at least to himself, how the pattern probably makes a kind of perverted sense.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCartwright's career began at the \u003ci\u003eFort Worth Star-Telegram\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFort Worth Press\u003c\/i\u003e, among kindred spirits and fellow pranksters Edwin \"Bud\" Shrake and Dan Jenkins. He describes how the three rookie writers followed their mentor Blackie Sherrod to the \u003ci\u003eDallas Times Herald\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eDallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e, becoming the \"best staff of sportswriters anywhere, ever\" and creating a new kind of sportswriting that \"swept the country and became standard.\" Cartwright recalls his twenty-five years at \u003ci\u003eTexas Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e, where he covered everything from true crime to notable Texans to Texas's cultural oddities. Along the way, he tells lively stories about \"rebelling against sobriety\" in many forms, with friends and co-conspirators that included Willie Nelson, Ann Richards, Dennis Hopper, Willie Morris, Don Meredith, Jack Ruby, and countless others. A remarkable portrait of the writing life and Austin's counterculture, \u003ci\u003eThe Best I Recall\u003c\/i\u003e may skirt the line between fact and fiction, but it always tells the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gary Cartwright\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0292749074\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780292749078\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 278\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/0001","brand":"Gary Cartwright","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43981532692735,"sku":"9780292749078","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a2b62e78-43e3-48f3-92b1-3ab61b542274.jpg?v=1683256132","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-best-i-recall-gary-cartwright-9780292749078","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}