Journal of Alta California

A FEW MORE BOOKSTORES WORTH EXPLORING ACROSS THE WEST

TEXAS: BOOKED UP

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In its heyday, Booked Up was one of the biggest bookstores in America. It’s still the most improbable. In a tiny town on the edge of the Great Plains (population: 1,702; traffic lights: 1), the novelist Larry

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