As we Older Folks (if some still middle-aged) are tempted to note, the
Presentism inherent in assuming We've Never Heard of Charles Portis is more
than a little presumptuous. More of what I'd expect of, say, CrimeReads,
than even the hype dept. at Library of America.
The online session is free, and will be posted on their site, barring the
flood. Or the sudden loss of LOA as well as Portis in some mooted
Collective Memory. TM
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Subject: Free Online Event: An All-Star Tribute to Charles Portis
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fellow writers. “His fiction,” Roy Blount, Jr., has said, “is the funniest
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hilarious Central American travel saga *The Dog of the South*, a book that
Roy Blount, Jr., said “no one should die without having read.”
“It’s absurdly fun to follow his oddballs and their odysseys, but something
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something about moral character and many somethings about the character of
this country.”
A generous gathering of nonfiction rounds out the edition, showing Portis’s
descriptive power as a reporter—particularly in his coverage of the civil
rights movement—as well as his appreciation of Arkansas history and
landscape in “The Forgotten River” and his skills as a family memoirist, on
display in his recollection “Combinations of Jacksons.”
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