Charles Portis, author of True Grit

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Remembering Charles Portis

Gathering Charles Portis’s many contributions to the Oxford American Following the death of the this “least-known great writer,” we’re revisiting his life and work. T he Oxford American joins the literary world in mourning the writer Charles Portis, who died on Monday morning at a...

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I started reading him several years ago -- Norwood, True Grit, pieces in Escape Velocity, maybe Dog of the South... and mean to read him again before long.

There's a place here to discuss his work:

Charles Portis: True Grit, Norwood, Dog of the South, Gringos, and more

This living author (born 1933) was my personal "discovery of the year" not long ago. In general "humorous books" is a category I avoid. But Portis was delightful. I'd say: start with Norwood or True Grit.* I'd happily start rereading one or the other of these right now if I didn't have so...

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