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Escape velocity : a Charles Portis miscellany / edited and with an introduction by Jay Jennings ; cover art and illustrations by Mike Reddy.

Author/creator Portis, Charles
Other author/creatorJennings, Jay, 1957-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoLittle Rock, Ark. : Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, ©2012.
Descriptionxxii, 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Uniform titleWorks. Selections. 2012
Contents Elected newspaper reporting and writing. Memphis commercial appeal (1958) -- Arkansas gazette (1959-1960) -- New York herald tribune (1960-1964) -- General assignment -- Rights reporting -- London bureau -- Travels -- That new sound from Nashville -- An auto odyssey through darkest Baja -- The forgotten river -- Motel life, lower reaches -- Short stories. Your action line -- Nights can turn cool in Viborra -- I don't talk service no more -- The wind bloweth where it listeth -- Memoir. Combinations of Jacksons -- Drama. Delray's new moon -- Epilogue. interview[s] -- Gazette project interview (by Roy Reed) -- Tributes. Comedy in earnest (by Roy Blount Jr.) -- Like Cormac McCarthy, but funny (by Ed Park) -- Our least-known great novelist (by Ron Rosenbaum) -- Afterword to True grit (by Donna Tartt) -- The book that changed my life: Gringos (by Wells Tower).
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 2012018195
ISBN9781935106500 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN1935106503 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS3566 .O663 A6 2012 ✔ Available Place Hold