Author of CARRY THE ROCK, editor of CHARLES PORTIS: COLLECTED WORKS from LOA.org. Former editor at @oxfordamerican. Opining all mine.
Little Rock, AR
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Some news: My screenplay adapted from Kate Kruimink's historical novel A Treacherous Country has won the top prize at the Byron Bay Film Festival in Australia. I'm gobsmacked. filmink.com.au/public-notice…
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Over at my amazing podcast Known Associates, Season 2 starts with a prismatic chat with the great Jonathan Lethem. Topics include: film-noir, Charles Portis, profiling Dylan and James Brown, the ecstasy of influence and his rad new band the Disassociation. southwestreview.com/known-as…
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From the great @tedgioia, a fan of the great Charles Portis. He includes both True Grits in his list. open.substack.com/pub/tedgio…
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And John Wayne was a fan, too. encyclopediaofarkansas.net/m…
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Terrific interview. First week US Open on the outer courts is my favorite sports spectating experience. No substitute for seeing the game up close.
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Another great Cunningham’s Law move — love seeing people bring up Charles Portis, etc.
Americans can’t write funny novels. After 250 years, they still don't have a sense of humour. spectator.com/article/why-am…
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Since everyone's chiming in on their favorite funny American novels and novelists: of course Charles Portis, but I'll add @elmckenzie1, Lorrie Moore, Ed Park, Peter De Vries and Gilbert Rogin.
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“American novels aren’t funny” okay explain this. explain why the funniest novel ever written is about a man from Little Rock, Arkansas
The Great Flatsby: why American novels aren’t funny 🇺🇸😐
✍️ me in @spectator
spectator.com/article/why-am…
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“All I need to write is to run in the morning, to have coffee and a Coke at hand, and to be able to take a nap. The siesta is crucial.” —Javier Cercas buff.ly/U8hB0RG
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Tomorrow!! Commit to your writing—day by day, panel by panel, strip by strip.
Join @gelgud in a six-week, online workshop on the art of the daily comic and strengthen your writing practice in the process. Save your seat now: lareviewofbooks.org/event/ho…
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The late editor Bill Whitworth once called his friend Charles Portis a "closet intellectual." I thought of that when I read about Fernando Pessoa's "trunk" found after his death and wondered if Portis might have read about it and drew on it for Dix's trunk in Dog of the South.
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Really hard to be all that sad when your 108 year old grandmother dies. The dominant emotion for me was awe.
But she loved Black Americans showing out in tennis and damned if I didn't get a little sad she's not going to be here to see this Tiafoe v Shelton US Open semifinal.
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Omg I remember reading DFW in Tennis magazine as a kid not knowing who the f DFW was
Labor Day Weekend always takes me back to 1995, when I hung out with David Foster Wallace in Flushing Meadows as he reported on the US Open for Tennis magazine on assignment from me. It's sad that there's no more Tennis magazine, only the rudimentary Tennis.com. 1/6
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Labor Day Weekend always takes me back to 1995, when I hung out with David Foster Wallace in Flushing Meadows as he reported on the US Open for Tennis magazine on assignment from me. It's sad that there's no more Tennis magazine, only the rudimentary Tennis.com. 1/6
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That comment measures the loss of not only his own brilliant writing from its original print source and now-shuttered archives but also that of less flashy but excellent work from reporters, photographers, writers, and editors over decades at Tennis and other magazines. 5/6
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