Charles Portis poll

Meanwhile, at the back of the crowd, Portis held the envelope in his hand. He opened it, pulled out the check, studied it for a minute, then leaned over to show it to the woman seated next to him before sliding it back into the envelope.

(Article featuring andrew's friend's pics.)

http://www.arktimes.com/images/blogimages/2010/12/22/1293064881-portis.jpg

Cool.

Guy I always think of when I think of Portis is Padgett Powell. Still have to finish reading The Interrogative Mode.

i finally read true grit so now i can vote for norwood with confidence. i do wish true grit was like three times as long though.

also voted norwood - love this passage:

Rita Lee came back with a frozen Milky Way and some confession magazines and comic books. She read about a miser duck called Uncle Scrooge, and his young duck nephews, whose adventures took place in a city where all the bystanders, the figures on the street, were anthropoid dogs walking erect. Norwood read about Superman and the double-breasted-suited Metropolis underworld. It was a kryptonite story and not a bad one.

anybody ever seen the movie version of norwood w/ jon voight (its meant to be terrible, tho' voigt seems like p good casting)? the closest nov i know to norwood's gothic comedy is modern baptists by james wilcox, which i wld also v much rec for those who have exhausted the portis bunch

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omg I'm an idiot I didn't vote. That is why True Grit = 0

fail ;_;

ha surprising that masters of atlantis got 1 vote and true grit got 0.

it's all my fault

:(

ha surprising that masters of atlantis got 1 vote and true grit got 0.

― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, May 16, 2012 2:06 PM (1 hour ago)

Arkansas native Charles Portis, author of True Grit, will soon release his first new book in more than 20 years.

Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany will be published this fall by Butler Center Books, a division of the Central Arkansas Library System.

The book, which collects Portis' nonfiction and short stories as well as a memoir and a play, spans his half-century-long writing career, covering his early journalism from the 1950s when he worked for several newspapers up to more recent magazine stories published in the Atlantic and the Oxford American.

nice

weeeee

Charles Portis Dies at 86

I have never sought out information about him as a person, but he was the author of many worthwhile and interesting books. Rest in peace, Mr. Portis. Your works will continue to be read.

heartbroken. :(

anybody ever seen the movie version of norwood w/ jon voight (its meant to be terrible, tho' voigt seems like p good casting)?

It's Glen Campbell, not Jon Voight - unless there's another movie version of "Norwood"? Not only Glen Cambell, but Kim Darby too!

...and Joe Namath!

RIP, one of the greats. these poll results were weird, i think portis-heads overcorrect for the popularity of true grit sometimes

and two people thought "gringos" was his best book?

^ChasPollops

(Not your post, the two votes)

Don’t sleep on the link I dug up
TOMORROW, Sat. Jan 6, is the last day of COLISEUM BOOKS in NYC

Also, closest thing I ever found to Portis was Padgett Powell, although of course it is not quite an exact match.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/what-charles-portis-taught-us

i am here to formally announce that i will pay you all of my money in exchange for an open-world RPG based on the novels of charles portis

— pete beatty (@petebeatty) March 18, 2020

I could see LaBouef driving a Ford Torino, sure.

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From Library of America enewsletter:

Jay Jennings, editor of the LOA edition of Portis’s collected works, recently went through the archive and wrote about the experience on our website. Though he didn’t find an unpublished draft of a novel “set in Veracruz and involving chiropractors or witches,” he did unearth a wealth of material shedding light on the famously shoptalk-averse Portis’s craft and process.