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Collected here in Escape Velocity, edited by Jay Jennings, is his "miscellany" –– journalism, short fiction, memoir, and even the play Delray's New Moon, published for the first time in this volume. Portis covers topics as varied as the civil rights movement, road tripping in Baja, and Elvis' s visits to his aging mother for publications such as the New York Herald Tribune and Saturday Evening Post. Fans of Portis’s droll Southern humor and quirky characters will be thrilled at this new addition to his library, and those not yet familiar with his work will find a great introduction to him here. Also included are tributes by accomplished authors including Donna Tartt and Ron Rosenbaum.
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For those who care about literature or simply love a good laugh (or both), Charles Portis has long been one of America's most admired novelists. His 1968 novel True Grit is fixed in the contemporary canon, and four more have been hailed as comic masterpieces. Now, for the first time, his other writings--journalism, travel stories, short fiction, memoir, and even a play--have been brought together in Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany, his first new book in more than twenty years. All the familiar Portis elements are here: picaresque adventures, deadpan humor, an expert eye for detail and keen ear for the spoken word, and encounters with oddball characters both real and imagined. The collection encompasses the breadth of his fifty-year writing career, from his gripping reportage of the civil rights movement for the New York Herald Tribune to a comic short story about the demise of journalism in the 21st century. New to even the most ardent fan is his three-act play, Delray's New Moon, performed onstage in 1996 and published here for the first time. Whether this is your first encounter with the world of Portis or a long-awaited return to it, you'll agree with critic Ron Rosenbaum--whose essay appears here alongside tributes by other writers--that Portis "will come to be regarded as the author of classics on the order of a twentieth-century Mark Twain, a writer who captures the soul of America."
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PRAISE FOR CHARLES PORTIS
"Mr. Portis is a soft-spoken American genius and his work breathes pure decency. They ought to name a hotel after him, or at least a bus station." -Garrison Keillor
"Charles Portis is the goods: a deadpan reporter of human folly, a master of pathos, a compassionate portrayer of life's absolute absurdity, and a man with a voice." -Katherine A. Powers, The Boston Globe
"No living Southern writer captures the spoken idioms of the South as artfully as Portis does." -Donna Tartt
"His fiction is the funniest I know, but the last thing in the world his characters have in mind is putting themselves across as comical. They are taking on the world in earnest. ... Lesser comic writers drag their characters onstage and say, 'Get a load of this guy!' Portis's characters just show up." -Roy Blount Jr.
"Mr. Portis is a soft-spoken American genius and his work breathes pure decency. They ought to name a hotel after him, or at least a bus station." -Garrison Keillor
"Charles Portis is the goods: a deadpan reporter of human folly, a master of pathos, a compassionate portrayer of life's absolute absurdity, and a man with a voice." -Katherine A. Powers, The Boston Globe
"No living Southern writer captures the spoken idioms of the South as artfully as Portis does." -Donna Tartt
"His fiction is the funniest I know, but the last thing in the world his characters have in mind is putting themselves across as comical. They are taking on the world in earnest. ... Lesser comic writers drag their characters onstage and say, 'Get a load of this guy!' Portis's characters just show up." -Roy Blount Jr.
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