PROFILE: Like Cormac McCarthy, But Funny (Ed Park, 3/01/03, Believer) PROFILE: True Grit, Odd Wit: And Fame? No, Thanks (Charles McGrath, Dec. How is it that this absurd and hilarious 1979 novel can say so much about our current collective psyche? (Elizabeth Nelson Feb 1, 2019, The Ringer) ESSAY: Pure Nitro: 40 Years of Charles Portis’s Comic Masterpiece ‘The Dog of the South’: Adored by generations of writers as well as the likes of Bill Hader and the Coen brothers, this wonder of American literature is four decades old this year. TRIBUTE: Charles Portis’ “Norwood” at 50: A Review (Joe Meazle, August 4, 2016, Arkansas Times) ESSAY: OUR LEAST-KNOWN GREAT NOVELIST: Do Charles Portis’s Trailways dreamers possess the mysteries of the universe? (RON ROSENBAUM, January 1998, Esquire)

PROFILE: Charles Portis, a Journalist With True Grit (Jay Jennings, Jul. TRIBUTE: Donna Tartt on the Singular Voice, and Pungent Humor, of Charles Portis (Donna Tartt, 6/09/20, NY Times) INTERVIEW: Read a rare interview with Charles Portis about his Arkansas days (Will Stephenson June 17, 2014, Arkansas Times) SHORT STORY: I Don't Talk Service No More (Charles Portis, May 1996, The Atlantic) SHORT STORY: Combinations of Jacksons (CHARLES PORTIS, MAY 1999, The Atlantic) SHORT STORY: MOTEL LIFE, LOWER REACHES (Charles Portis, April 3, 2014, Oxford American) SHORT STORY: THE WIND BLOWETH WHERE IT LISTETH (Charles Portis, August 26, 2013, Oxford American) AUDIO BOOK: Charles Portis - Masters of Atlantis Audiobook (YouTube) BIO: Charles McColl Portis (1933–2020) (Encyclopedia of Arkansas) BIO: Portis, Charles (Vered Kleinberger, Spring 1999, Scholar Blog, Emory) Reading group: True Grit by Charles Portis (Sam Jordison,, The Guardian) ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA: Charles Portis AMERICAN AUTHOR (John M.

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