RIP Charles Portis. Whom Jochen talked me into reading.

David Mugmon dmugmon at gmail.com
Mon Feb 17 22:36:35 UTC 2020


Fuck!

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> On Feb 17, 2020, at 1:55 PM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Yes, I think so, too. And thanks, Mark.
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>> Am Mo., 17. Feb. 2020 um 22:40 Uhr schrieb Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com>:
>> 
>> so sad. My favorite is The Dog of the South. Ray Midge is one of the all
>> time great characters.
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>>> On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 8:21 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> 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
>>> consciousness.
>>> 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.
>>> I wish they
>>> would do one of the others.
>>> 
>>> https://twitter.com/petebeatty/status/1229495989427462145?s=20...
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>>> harlesFinch
>>> <https://mobile.twitter.com/CharlesFinch>
>>> ·
>>> 1m <https://mobile.twitter.com/CharlesFinch/status/1229497365708435458>
>>> 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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