![]() ![]() ![]() Benjamin’s essay extolled the role of story tellers in the history of Western civilization and was published in 1936, the year of McMurtry’s birth. The genesis for this volume took place some years ago while McMurtry was sitting in the Archer City Dairy Queen, reading an essay by the German literary critic Walter Benjamin. ![]() More than anything else, this memoir reveals that the Archer City author has always placed a much higher priority on what he takes into his creative mind than on what flows from it. But as this volume-length essay demonstrates, what moved this most famous of the state’s native literary sons from the obscurity of West Texas cat tle country to quasi-greatness as an American novelist was not his love of writ ing, but rather, his devotion to reading. It may well be that Larry McMurtry’s forty-some-odd-year career will be as close as the Lone Star state will ever come to providing the literary world with a monumental scribbler whose works have come to stand for excellence in let' ters. Reviewed by C lay R eynolds University of Texas at Dallas Texas has produced a number of great books, but no truly great writer. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:īOOK REVIEWS Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond. ![]()
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