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Message: [QUOTE="Sifaka, post: 3917982, member: 8516"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/books/larry-mcmurtry-dead.html[/URL] I first met him in the early 1970s when I was an antiquarian bookman in Baltimore. Larry had just opened the first iteration of his own antiquarian/rare book establishment, "Booked Up", in the D.C. area. He would stop in once a month or so, usually accompanied by (name withheld to protect...), an uncommonly bright and, to use a term from a McMurtry novel, fetching young lady. He was already a well known writer, but as down-home and genuine as could be. He did what every good antiquarian bookman does-found all my pricing mistakes, brought piles of them to the cash register, and winked conspiratorially when requesting his "to the trade" discount. Gentleman that he was, he invited me to come to his shop to return the favor. I've never thought of him as a celebrity, though that he surely was. Rather, to me he was a highly intelligent, affable, and humble man. Farewell, Larry. [/QUOTE]