Books like Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen by Larry McMurtry
In this nonfiction work, Larry McMurtry uses an essay by German critic Walter Benjamin—first read in Archer City's Dairy Queen—as a springboard to examine the small‑town way of life that big oil and ranching have nearly destroyed. He celebrates the virtues of everything from a Lime Dr Pepper and the lost art of oral storytelling to the perfect piece of pie, while describing the brutal effect of Texas’ vast emptiness on its people. McMurtry also shares his own experiences as a writer, a parent, and a heart patient, revealing the raw material that shaped his expansive fictional panorama of Texas’ past and present.
First publish date: 1999
Genre: Memoir/Personal Memoir
Authors: Larry McMurtry
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