The ‘Fixer Upper’ star hasn’t announced plans yet for the store, which closed after McMurtry died in 2021.
Gaines, who, with his wife, Joanna, parlayed TV fame into a lifestyle brand and retail complex, purchased the store in November. Residents and fans of Texas literature say they are hopeful theMcMurtry, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, essayist and screenwriter,. Booked Up has been closed for about a year in his birthplace, with rumors swirling over the fate of the thousands of titles housed inside.
“And we sure have high hopes that there’s a plan that something is in store to keep on honoring Larry’s legacy and bring visitors or bring people to our town.”
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