Bud Shrake was a journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and bon vivant from Fort Worth. I recently read the story "The Buffalo Hunt" from his novel
Blessed McGill in
A Part of Space:Ten Texas Writers (TCU Press: 1969). The story is so convincing that I find it unfathomable to believe that Shrake was not a buffalo hunter in the Texas Panhandle in the nineteenth century. Shrake's attention to detail, careful choice of words, and ear for the music of language place him in the pantheon of Texas writers.
He is also in the pantheon of bon vivants. Bud Shrake ran with Hunter S. Thompson, dated Jack Ruby's star exotic dancer at the Carousel Club, numbered some of Texas' biggest musical artists as his friends, and was Ann Richards' partner for almost two decades.
With the anniversary of the Kennedy assassination coming in the next few days, here is Bud Shrake discussing, among other things, his relationship with Jack Ruby.
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