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Escape velocity : a Charles Portis miscellany Cover Image Book Book

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

Portis, Charles. (Author). Jennings, Jay, 1957- (Added Author). Reddy, Mike. (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 9781935106500
  • ISBN: 1935106503
  • Physical Description: xxii, 358 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Little Rock, Ark. : Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, c2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-356)
Formatted Contents Note:
Elected newspaper reporting and writing. Memphis commercial appeal (1958) -- Arkansas gazette (1959-1960) -- New York herald tribune (1960-1964) -- General assignment -- Civil 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).

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24510. ‡aEscape velocity : ‡ba Charles Portis miscellany / ‡cedited and with an introduction by Jay Jennings ; cover art and illustrations by Mike Reddy.
260 . ‡aLittle Rock, Ark. : ‡bButler Center for Arkansas Studies, ‡cc2012.
300 . ‡axxii, 358 p. : ‡bill. ; ‡c24 cm.
504 . ‡aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [353]-356)
5050 . ‡aElected newspaper reporting and writing. Memphis commercial appeal (1958) -- Arkansas gazette (1959-1960) -- New York herald tribune (1960-1964) -- General assignment -- Civil 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).
60010. ‡aPortis, Charles.
7001 . ‡aJennings, Jay, ‡d1957-
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