Never Mind: McMurtry's Store to Stay Open
Booked Up, Larry McMurtry's huge used and antiquarian
bookstore in his hometown of Archer City, Tex., will not close up.
Earlier this year, the author of Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show and Terms of Endearment had said he would close the store by 2006. A note now posted on the store's Web site reads:
"To our customers, alarmed or otherwise:
"The economic crisis that forced us to consider closing at the end of this year has mostly passed. To a large extent it was a crisis felt by hundreds of antiquarian booksellers in America. Many closed. We, fortunately, won't have to.
"We will be open regular hours (10-5, Monday-Saturday) and welcome all readers, dealers, browsers.
"We are sorry for the alarm, but things did look discouraging for a while. Profound change has come to the antiquarian book business in the last few years--when and if it will stop nobody knows, but Booked Up, for now and we hope for a long time to come, is still in the game."
McMurtry told the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram: "I think it will be able to stay solvent and stay open. I didn't want to close it. I wouldn't know what to do with it if I did close it."
Earlier this year, the author of Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show and Terms of Endearment had said he would close the store by 2006. A note now posted on the store's Web site reads:
"To our customers, alarmed or otherwise:
"The economic crisis that forced us to consider closing at the end of this year has mostly passed. To a large extent it was a crisis felt by hundreds of antiquarian booksellers in America. Many closed. We, fortunately, won't have to.
"We will be open regular hours (10-5, Monday-Saturday) and welcome all readers, dealers, browsers.
"We are sorry for the alarm, but things did look discouraging for a while. Profound change has come to the antiquarian book business in the last few years--when and if it will stop nobody knows, but Booked Up, for now and we hope for a long time to come, is still in the game."
McMurtry told the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram: "I think it will be able to stay solvent and stay open. I didn't want to close it. I wouldn't know what to do with it if I did close it."