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Books
A Documentary - Coming Fall 2024
In August of 2012, Larry McMurtry’s world renowned bookstore, Booked Up, auctioned off over 300,000 antiquarian books. Each individually priced by Larry, the collection was spread among four large buildings in his small oil patch hometown of Archer City, Texas. This anthology of American bookshops past, curated by Mr. McMurtry over forty years, held the acquisitions of some twenty-six bookshops and two-hundred personal libraries.
Despite the sweltering Texas heat, dealers, collectors, teachers, lookers-on and local folks queued up outside of building 4 with the hopes of being part of, or at least, present for “The Last Book Sale”. As the attendees stepped through the doors for the pre-auction viewing they were overwhelmed by the sheer volume of books they encountered. ”Where do I even start?” they asked themselves.
Directed and Produced by Mathew Provost and Sara Ossana.
KICKSTARTER BACKERSHuge THANK YOU to all of the incredible people who backed Books: A Documentary during our Kickstarter campaign. The generosity, faith and support these names represent has been inspiring and we can’t thank them enough.
PRESS
Fine Books Magazine - New York Times - The New York Review of Books - Parade - Poets & Writers - Book Riot - Publishers Weekly - The Daily Beast - D Magazine - Abe Books - Chris Barsanti - Film Courage - The New Yorker - The Casual Optimist - Signature Reads - The Paris Review - Cinema Sight
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We are heartbroken to share that Larry McMurtry passed away on March 26th, 2021, at his home. He was 84 and surrounded by those he held dear.