# Lonesome Dove

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What Makes a Country Worth Loving?

What makes a country worth loving? Is patriotism about flags, freedom, democracy, or the people who hold a nation together behind the scenes? In this episode of Transatlantic Bookmarks, we celebrate America’s 249th Independence Day by moving beyond the headlines to ask a bigger question: What makes…

The Wuthering Heights Controversy: Is Hollywood Ruining Books?

The 2025 adaptation of Wuthering Heights has reignited debate about race, casting, and fidelity to the source material. But the controversy raises a larger question: why do some books survive adaptation beautifully while others lose everything essential about them? In this episode of Transatlantic …

The Pirate Queen: Ariel Lawhon on 400 Years of Complex Women

Ariel Lawhon's new novel, The Pirate Queen, is out now, and it brings Grace O'Malley, a sixteenth century Irish noblewoman who became a legendary pirate, mother, and rebel, roaring back to life. It's the same instinct that shaped Ariel's earlier novels Codename Helene and I Was Anastasia: find the …

Episode 97: Ed Sheeran Waffles On Genocide, Don’t Vandalize The Still-Dead Charlie Kirk’s Statue, James Talarico Is A Trans Traitor, East-Winging The Kennedy Center, Kash Patel Explains Bestiality, Rebooting Lonesome Dove, and more

Ed Sheeran waffles on genocide. Don’t vandalize the still-dead Charlie Kirk’s statue. James Talarico is a trans traitor. East-Winging the Kennedy Center. Kash Patel explains bestiality. The top party school rankings are in – is your school the best of the worst? Post-hypocrisy lessons with Alabama …

Reel 97b: Mini-Series, Part 2 (Lonesome Dove)

In which we continue and conclude our discussion of Lonesome Dove. The mini-series is clearly not a strictly American phenomenon (as evidenced by our last episode), but there was a while when that could easily be the argument. It seemed as though mini-series were ubiquitous during the 1970s and 8…

Reel 97a: Mini-Series, Part 2 (Lonesome Dove)

The mini-series is clearly not a strictly American phenomenon (as evidenced by our last episode), but there was a while when that could easily be the argument. It seemed as though mini-series were ubiquitous during the 1970s and 80s. The first by-definition mini-series in the US was probably The B…

Ethan Hawke

For Bustle’s first ⁠One Nightstand⁠ Live, Charlotte Owen sits down with Ethan Hawke at Strand Bookstore. The five-time Oscar nominee talks about his love of The Animal Family, explains why he was jealous of Dave Eggers, and shares his true feelings on those Lonesome Dove rumors. Ethan Hawke’s One N…

Lonesome Dove: Five Lessons from Out on the Range

Send me a message Buy Me A Coffee and help support the podcast. What can the novel and mini-series Lonesome Dove teach us about getting older?  A lot more than you might expect. In this episode of Bill Monty’s Guide for Getting Older, I take a look at Larry McMurtry’s classic novel Lonesome Dove an…

East of Eden gives us Cain, Abel, and Florence Pugh

Alan and Kathryn return to discuss the highly anticipated East of Eden adaptation by Zoe Kazan starring Florence Pugh - but would you believe an even greater performance bowls them both over? Then the pair take a tour through the original Lonesome Dove miniseries and its many, many sequels. 00:00 I…

East of Eden gives us Cain, Abel, and Florence Pugh

Alan and Kathryn return to discuss the highly anticipated East of Eden adaptation by Zoe Kazan starring Florence Pugh - but would you believe an even greater performance bowls them both over? Then the pair take a tour through the original Lonesome Dove miniseries and its many, many sequels. 00:00 I…