nybooks  Larry McMurtry, The Last Book Sale In a summer when the shoreline temperature in the Little Arkansas River reached 98 degreesbad news for catfishshould I really have attempted to bring a bunch of citified northerners into the heart of the heat, which peaked locally at 116 Well, yes. It's just weather, as my popular hero Captain Woodrow Call often said if he heard a complaint. So I threw a book sale. Photo David WooDallas Morning NewsCorbis