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- ↑ McMurtry, Larry (2009). Literary Life: A Second Memoir. Simon & Schuster. p. 152.
- ↑ McMurtry, Larry (2001). Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen : reflections at sixty and beyond. p. 55.
- ↑ Anything for Billy review at Kirkus
- ↑ Anything for Billy review at Publishers Weekly