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Escape velocity : a Charles Portis miscellany /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Portis, Charles
Other Authors: Jennings, Jay, 1965-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Little Rock, AR : Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, 2012.
Subjects:
Portis, Charles > Appreciation.
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Table of Contents:
  • Elected newspaper reporting and writing. Memphis commercial appeal (1958)
  • Arkansas gazette (1959-1960)
  • New York herald tribune (1960-1964)
  • General assignment
  • Rights reporting
  • London bureau
  • Travels
  • That new sound from Nashville
  • An auto odyssey through darkest Baja
  • The forgotten river
  • Motel life, lower reaches
  • Short stories. Your action line
  • Nights can turn cool in Viborra
  • I don't talk service no more
  • The wind bloweth where it listeth
  • Memoir. Combinations of Jacksons
  • Drama. Delray's new moon
  • Epilogue. interview[s]
  • Gazette project interview (by Roy Reed)
  • Tributes. Comedy in earnest (by Roy Blount Jr.)
  • Like Cormac McCarthy, but funny (by Ed Park)
  • Our least-known great novelist (by Ron Rosenbaum)
  • Afterword to True grit (by Donna Tartt)
  • The book that changed my life: Gringos (by Wells Tower).