![]() ![]() Providing a comfortable setting that made possible hundreds of small, informal local forums, revived, for a time, the potential for storytelling of the sort Walter Benjamin favored.'' McMurtry then reflects, glancingly, The Dairy Queens of West Texas, he declares, ''by the town long since made famous as Thalia to readers of McMurtry's novels. ''The Storyteller'' in the Dairy Queen in Archer City, Tex. ''Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen,'' McMurtry's tentative, poignant new book, subtitled ''Reflections at Sixty and Beyond,'' begins in the summer of 1980 with the author reading Benjamin's 1936 essay Range'' across which he's felt ''free as any nomad to roam.'' As for writing, ''What is it but a way of herding words?'' Rom the moment, almost 60 years ago, when an older cousin gave him a box of 19 books, Larry McMurtry has been more interested in reading than ranching.īut even now his father's occupation supplies the metaphors for describing McMurtry's own life with the written word - as reader, novelist and antiquarian bookseller. Larry McMurtry sees a link between European neurasthenia and 'prairie derangement.' By THOMAS MALLON ![]()
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