The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 33, August 17, 2003, Article 20

MCMURTRY BOOK STORE, ARCHER CITY, TEXAS

  A recent Reuters article featured a huge used bookstore in
  out-of-the-way Archer City, Texas.  Should any of our
  readers have a chance to travel there, it might be an interesting
  place to poke around.

 "Dusty streets, a blinking traffic light and churning oil rigs in
  the bone-dry hills are the backdrop for the classic movie
  "The Last Picture Show" -- and for an unlikely oasis for used
  book lovers.

  Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Larry McMurtry, author of
  "Terms of Endearment," "Lonesome Dove" and "The Last
  Picture Show," has turned his hometown of Archer City,
  Texas, into what several book dealers say is one of the
  preeminent places in the United States to search for used
  books.

  His store, called Booked Up, fills four buildings in the town
  square and has between 200,000 and 300,000 books on
  the shelves."

  "Explaining the appeal of owning a rare bookshop, McMurtry
  said, "Writing is an imaginative, emotional, emotive effort. The
  process of selling rare and out of print books is much drier.
  For me, it has always been a perfect balance."

  The article makes an interesting read:
  http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=3277380

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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