Deep in North Texas, less than an hour from the border of Oklahoma, is a small town featured in some of cinema and literature's most classic titles. Archer City is home to just over 1,600 people, the ...

Larry McMurtry's writing legacy will live on in his hometown of Archer City, Texas. His former bookstore, Booked Up, is set to become a literary center after Chip and Joanna Gaines recently sold it to ...

George Getschow (left) met with author Larry McMurtry at his Booked Up store in Archer City in 2014. Getschow is heading up the effort to create the Larry McMurtry Literary Center to preserve the late ...

A literary center in Archer City, a tiny ranching town in Texas, keeps alive the legacy of famed Western author Larry McMurtry. A literary center named for author Larry McMurtry breathes life into his ...

George Getschow (left,) executive director of the literary center, and Kathy Floyd, the center's manager. "I've never known anyone who loved books as much as Larry McMurtry," says Getschow. (John ...

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 ...