I guess it's well that the conversation is going on. The novelist Larry McMurtry used to run a used bookstore, Booked Up, in Georgetown. In a memoir of his time

I guess it's well that the conversation is going on. The novelist Larry McMurtry used to run a used bookstore, Booked Up, in Georgetown. In a memoir of his time in the the book trade, he remarked that he quickly perceived that a) in Washington the true stars were the journalists, and that b) most of them just didn't read. He named Joseph Alsop as an exception. Perhaps things have since changed in DC. (McMurtry moved his operation to Archer City, Texas, about twenty years ago, not from disappointment with the journalists but for lower rent.)