To her, a good Western romance is about the love ... Clare Mulroy is USA TODAY’s Books Reporter, where she covers buzzy releases, chats with authors and dives into the culture of reading.

a short-lived publication dedicated to discovering and promoting new Western fiction – one of Beau L’Amour’s many projects, along with trying to change his father’s book covers to appeal ...

Hernan Diaz, who won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction this year, and in 2017 set his first novel, “In the Distance,” in a myth-chasing West, attributes the current surge in Western fiction to ...

"Payback at Morning Peak," by Gene Hackman; Pocket Books (400 pages ... but how well can he wrangle Western fiction? Just fine, it turns out. "Payback at Morning Peak" is a satisfying revenge ...