From Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, film scholar/historian, and bestselling author of The Searchers and High Noon – GLENN FRANKEL -- has a new book on Hollywood legends and history -- SHOOTING MIDNIGHT COWBOY: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and The Making of a Dark Classic (Farrar, Straus and Giroux: March 16, 2021).

John Schlesinger’s Midnight Cowboy is something unique in the history of cinema. The story of a young Texan who moves to New York City to become a hustler, and the relationship he forms with a small-time grifter, it is the only film with an X-rating ever to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards. In SHOOTING MIDNIGHT COWBOY, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Glenn Frankel gives this dark classic of the New Hollywood era the authoritative history that it deserves.

Glenn Frankel is available for interviews. I would love to get you a copy of the book – PDF or hardcover – (please send appropriate mailing address) and arrange for an interview with Glenn. Please respond with a preferred date and time.

SHOOTING MIDNIGHT COWBOY is a fascinating group portrait of the men and women who came together to create the film.

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