mr kaplan's List: Portis

I Don't Talk Service No More, a Charles Portis adaptation by Katrina Whalen:

Jay Jennings, editor of Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany, in conversation with filmmaker Katrina Whalen:

CHARLES PORTIS, AUTHOR OF TRUE GRIT, GOT JOHN WAYNE HIS ONLY OSCAR. HE ONCE HAD KARL MARX’S OLD GIG (AS THE LONDON BUREAU CHIEF FOR THE NEW YORK HERALD-TRIBUNE). HE’S WRITTEN FOUR OTHER NOVELS, THREE OF THEM MASTERPIECES, THOUGH WHICH THREE IS UP FOR DEBATE. HERE’S 7,000 WORDS ABOUT A GUY YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF. BUT SHOULD, WE SAY.

DISCUSSED: Dr. Slaughter, Gringos, The Dog of the South, Turnip Greens, a Japanese Napkin-Folding Club, Ink-Stained Wretchdom, Gore, True Grit, the Old Testament, Glen Campbtell, the Covered Path, Occult Mischief, Ambidextrous Romanians, Pure Nitro.

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