Sunday, August 28, 2011
Books: A Memoir
Larry McMurtry's bookshop in Archer, Texas, contains nearly 400,000 volumes; his personal library about 30,000. This slim, entertaining memoir about reading and the pursuit and sale of books carries an ominous undertone, neatly captured in a line from Cyril Connolly that reading has become a mandarin pursuit.
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