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The books I found at Larry McMurtry’s Booked Up Bookstore.

The books I found at Larry McMurtry’s Booked Up Bookstore.

I drove to Booked Up in Archer City yesterday. The writer Larry McMurtry owns the store. There used to be four stores until he held an auction about 5 or 6 months ago and sold the contents of three of the stores. Above are pictures of the remaining store. I found some gems, including:

1. A First American Edition of John Lennon’s work Skywriting By Word of Mouth
2. A First Edition signed copy of The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
3. Several titles from Jeanette Winterson and Rick Moody
4. A First Edition signed copy of The Erotic Life of Anais Nin by Noel Riley Fitch

nybooks: Larry McMurtry, The Last Book Sale In a summer when the shoreline temperature in the Little Arkansas River reached 98 degrees—bad news for catfish—should I really have attempted to bring a bunch of citified northerners into the heart of the heat, which peaked locally at 116? Well, yes. It’s just weather, as my popular hero Captain Woodrow Call often said if he heard a complaint. So I threw a book sale. Photo: David Woo/Dallas Morning News/Corbis Poor Larry, he looks so sad selling off his lifelong collection of books.

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Larry McMurtry, The Last Book Sale

In a summer when the shoreline temperature in the Little Arkansas River reached 98 degrees—bad news for catfish—should I really have attempted to bring a bunch of citified northerners into the heart of the heat, which peaked locally at 116?

Well, yes. It’s just weather, as my popular hero Captain Woodrow Call often said if he heard a complaint. So I threw a book sale.

Photo: David Woo/Dallas Morning News/Corbis

Poor Larry, he looks so sad selling off his lifelong collection of books.

You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.—Larry McMurtry

You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.—Larry McMurtry