NP but then it is: "Charles Portis". Esp first piece below.

[Mark Kohut]

Goes out for Jochen, who led me to finally read him. This is real fine on
*Norwood,* one I "liked' even better than *True Grit* and even* Dog of the
South* (although I think both are 'better',  richer books.) Reading
*Norwood* after *True Grit* and after some early comic Roth, including his
famous essay on how 'crazy' even in the early sixties was modern American
society just struck me. *Norwood* embodies what Roth found with his
examples in that essay, I suggest.  And Portis embodies the way thinking
can be "crazy" , a real logic from felt but damaged, oblique premises.
 But not only for that reason but to share this surely only-personal
connection. Starting to read* Vineland *again,  the beginning of *Norwood*,
probably illogically, probably in a Portis way flashed in my mind as I
followed the crazy logic of *Vineland's* opening anew. In no way am I
suggesting any kind of influence only that the best comic novels
are often alike in patterned ways, and I know there are other comic works
*Vineland* is kin to.
Speaking of which, do we think that the loggers motif in early *Vineland*
is at all Pynchon playing with the loggers in* Sometimes A Great Notion? *



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*Charles Portis's* Celebration of the Absurd
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The novelist *Charles Portis*, who died in February at the age of 86, was
one of the great American chroniclers of the 20th-century bizarre, but
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Grit.” No cowboys in this one. Nature notes. “I heard a professor in
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