RIP Charles Portis. Whom Jochen talked me into reading.

[Erik T. Burns]

so sad. My favorite is The Dog of the South. Ray Midge is one of the all
time great characters.

On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 8:21 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> https://twitter.com/RichardFausset/status/1229488600309477379?s=2
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> The conversations and actions in* Norwood* are as seriously, revealing
> funny as our best, as Roth's Zuckerman.
> Read him with  Roth's 60s essay on the surreal crazy America THEN in your
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> The way so many 'think' and talk and act.....Lebowski stuff, no coincidence
> the Koens remade True Grit, anchored with that young woman's fierce vision.
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> Bah, I just saw Charles Portis died. True Grit has just about as flawless
> and human a voice as any American novel. One of the greats.
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