Q: Larry McMurtry says he probably won't write another novel. Fiction writing is a young man's game.

A: There was an old man feel to Rhino Ranch. He was just getting through it. Killing everybody off.

Q: I liked Duane's Depressed.

It doesn't just take place in Thalia. Also in Wichita Falls. And Karla goes to Dallas to shop.

A: Duane's Depressed was the last book of the Duane Moore trilogy.

Then came two more books. When the Light Goes and Rhino Ranch.

Q: Plus Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen and Paradise.

A: Yes. It's a seven-book series. And two of them are memoirs.