ARCHER CITY, Texas — The celebrated Western writer, Larry McMurtry, aspired to turn this one-stoplight hometown into one of America's great book centers. For a time, he succeeded. You could visit one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry stood among thousands of books at his Booked Up store in downtown Archer City on Aug.

Author Larry McMurtry at the start of an event to auction off much of the stock from his four-building literary mecca, Booked Up, in Archer City, Texas, Aug. 10, 2012. Despite the bookstore industry's ...

Two new books about author Larry McMurtry have set me to remembering the moments of my life, and my father's, that intersected with his, and the influence this Texas literary legend has had on me and ...

During his 84 years, Texas writer Larry McMurtry lived in many more sophisticated places than the one where he grew up. But his hometown of Archer City was the place that produced and shaped him, and ...

ARCHER CITY, Tx. (Reuters) - Hipsters, booksellers and fans from across the country converged on the town where "The Last Picture Show" was filmed to buy a few books - or a truckload - at "The Last ...

How The Washington Post’s now-defunct Book World transformed the careers of two giants of American literature. By David Streitfeld Try this short quiz on novels set around America’s 19th-century ...

A literary center in Archer City, a tiny ranching town in Texas, keeps alive the legacy of famed Western author Larry McMurtry. Larry McMurtry was the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Lonesome Dove." ...