nice
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 14:28 (eleven years ago) link
weeeee
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
Charles Portis Dies at 86
― pplains, Monday, 17 February 2020 20:16 (four years ago) link
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.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 17 February 2020 20:48 (four years ago) link
heartbroken. :(
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 17 February 2020 20:51 (four years ago) link
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!
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Monday, 17 February 2020 20:52 (four years ago) link
...and Joe Namath!
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 17 February 2020 21:12 (four years ago) link
RIP, one of the greats. these poll results were weird, i think portis-heads overcorrect for the popularity of true grit sometimes
― na (NA), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 15:25 (four years ago) link
and two people thought "gringos" was his best book?
― na (NA), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 15:26 (four years ago) link
^ChasPollops
― He’s the Listener DJ, I’m the Listener Rapper (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 15:48 (four years ago) link
(Not your post, the two votes)
― He’s the Listener DJ, I’m the Listener Rapper (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 15:49 (four years ago) link
Don’t sleep on the link I dug up TOMORROW, Sat. Jan 6, is the last day of COLISEUM BOOKS in NYC
― He’s the Listener DJ, I’m the Listener Rapper (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 15:50 (four years ago) link
Also, closest thing I ever found to Portis was Padgett Powell, although of course it is not quite an exact match.
― He’s the Listener DJ, I’m the Listener Rapper (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 19:05 (four years ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/what-charles-portis-taught-us
― mookieproof, Thursday, 20 February 2020 20:26 (four years ago) link
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
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 21:45 (four years ago) link
I could see LaBouef driving a Ford Torino, sure.
― pplains, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 21:55 (four years ago) link
*bump*
― Roffle Tolhurst (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 August 2021 02:13 (two years ago) link
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.
― dow, Friday, 12 May 2023 00:58 (eleven months ago) link