![]() ![]() ![]() Guess I ought to look into that.” But Susan Merritt, manager of the local Dairy Queen, where McMurty set his Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen, tells the newspaper, “It’ll be a sad day if the store closes. The books will stay right where they are - they can slumber in their majesty until the next turn of the wheel.” A Ft.Worth Star-Telegram report by Bud Kennedy says “the news has not exactly rocked his hometown of Archer City.” Told the news, Mayor Carl Harrelson responded “in a dry monotone straight out of. Rather than exhibit any discomfort in this. In an “important announcement” posted there, he says that the shut-down isn’t necessarily permanent, and he and business partner Marcia Carter “are by no means ready to say a final goodbye.” But, says McMurtry, “I, however, need a sabbatical.” The 68-year-old author says he wants to travel some before “I become too decrepit. His range runs from high-adventure westerns filled with whoremongering and coldblooded killers to scholarly criticism in The New York Review of Books. ![]() Novelist Larry McMurtry has announced on website that he plans to close the giant used and rare bookstore, Booked Up, that he opened in his hometown of Archer City, Texas, (the scene of one of his most famous books, The Last Picture Show). Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen, McMurtry elsewhere. ![]()
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