MCMURTRY BOOK STORE, ARCHER CITY, TEXAS 上市 Deposited
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- 2003-08-17
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