Making Larry McMurtry Woozy

But, then, Barack Obama couldn't get much out of him, either

I used to conduct a lot of magazine interviews with prominent people. Every once in a while, one of them would present a challenge.

Perhaps the subject gave a lot of interviews and told the same stories over and over again as a way to avoid genuinely engaging with the interviewer. You had to ask unusual questions or press points to get him off his talki…