![]() ![]() "Your journalistic objectivity will be compromised," McMurtry replies, but adds that he's never particularly believed in journalistic objectivity anyway. "I've never interviewed someone I know before." ![]() "It's odd," I say as scraggly mesquite shrubs flash by in a blur. I guess Archer City didn't provide enough of a challenge." Consequently we're doing 75 through this flat West Texas ranchland in order to have lunch at Sevi's, the only decent Mexican restaurant in Wichita Falls, a town with a grand total of four nonpoisonous eating establishments: Sevi's a barbecue cafeteria called the Branding Iron McBride's, a steak house and the catfish restaurant, which is closed on Mondays. "They had a good chef when they first opened, but he left after a few weeks. This leaves the local café, which he describes as poisonous. Recently she fired the only two employees who could cook. The Archer City Dairy Queen, he says, is now owned by an evil woman with an empire of 27 Dairy Queens throughout Texas. This is what Larry McMurtry is explaining to me as we drive the 25 miles to Wichita Falls on a 110-degree afternoon in August. ![]() There's a restaurant crisis in Archer City, Texas. ![]()
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