In 1988 he opened another Booked Up in Archer City, which is one of the largest single used bookstores in the United States, carrying somewhere between 400,000 and 450,000 titles.
area, and in 1970 with two partners started a bookshop in Georgetown which he named Booked Up. While at Stanford he became a rare-book scout, and during his years in Houston managed a book store there called the Bookman. McMurtry and Kesey remained friends after McMurtry left California and returned to Texas, and Kesey's famous cross-country trip with his Merry Pranksters in a day-glo painted schoolbus 'Further' included a stop at McMurtry's home in Houston, described in Tom Wolfe's New-Journalistic book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. In 1960, McMurtry was also a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where he studied the craft of fiction under novelist Wallace Stegner and alongside a number of other writers, including Ken Kesey, Peter S. Carter award for periodical prose in 1966, for Texas: Good Times Gone or Here Again?.In 1964 he was awarded a Guggenheim grant. Jones Award from the Texas Institute of Letters on three occasions in 1962, for Horseman, Pass By in 1967, for The Last Picture Show, which he shared with Tom Pendleton's The Iron Orchard and in 1986, for Lonesome Dove. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination." It's not easy even to get a rural story made." "No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start." "Self-parody is the first portent of age." "True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it." "You expect far too much of a first sentence. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted." "Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves." "Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. "A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough." "Americans don't want cowboys to be gay." "Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic." "If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific.
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