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‘The Best American Writer You’ve Never Heard Of’: A Tribute to Charles Portis

‘The Best American Writer You’ve Never Heard Of’: A Tribute to Charles Portis

Update: 2023-05-18
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Wednesday, May 17—Charles Portis’s novels and stories, with their deadpan style, unforgettable characters, and rollicking plots of pursuit, obsession, absurdity, and intrigue, have a passionate following among readers and fellow writers. “His fiction,” Roy Blount, Jr., has said, “is the funniest I know.” To celebrate publication of LOA’s long-awaited collected edition of the author of True Grit, join Blount, Roz Chast, Ian Frazier, Mary Roach, Paul Theroux, Ed Park, Calvin Trillin, and Jay Jennings for an all-star tribute to the novelist whose work has been called “one of the great pure pleasures—both visceral and cerebral—available in modern American literature.”

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‘The Best American Writer You’ve Never Heard Of’: A Tribute to Charles Portis

‘The Best American Writer You’ve Never Heard Of’: A Tribute to Charles Portis

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