Sources

I. SELECTED NEWSPAPER REPORTING AND WRITING

The stories on pages 3–8 are reprinted by permission of the Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Tennessee.

The stories from the Arkansas Gazette on pages 10–18 are reprinted by permission of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in Little Rock, Arkansas.

The stories on pages 19–66 from the New York Herald Tribune are reprinted by permission. © 1960–1964 The New York Times. All rights reserved. Used by permission and protected by the copyright laws of the United States. The printing, copying, redistribution, or retransmission of this content without express written permission is prohibited.

II. TRAVELS

The following song lyrics quoted in the story are used by permission:

Page 72: “Mule Skinner Blues,” by Jimmie Rodgers and Vaughn Horton © 1931, 1950 by Peer International Corporation. Copyright renewed. International copyright secured. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Page 73: “A White Sport Coat (and a Pink Carnation),” words and music by Marty Robbins © 1957 (renewed 1985) Mariposa Music, Inc. (BMI). Rights for Mariposa Music, Inc., administered by BMG Rights Management (US) LLC in the U.S. only. International copyright secured. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Hal Leonard Corporation.

Page 78: “Do Wacka Do” © 1964 Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC. All rights administered by Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, 8 Music Square West, Nashville, Tennessee 37203. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

“An Auto Odyssey through Darkest Baja.” Los Angeles Times Home Magazine, February 26, 1967.

“The Forgotten River.” Arkansas Times, September 1991.

“Motel Life, Lower Reaches.” Oxford American, January/February 2003.

III. SHORT STORIES

“Damn!” Nugget, October 1957.

“Your Action Line.” The New Yorker, December 12, 1977.

“Nights Can Turn Cool in Viborra.” The Atlantic, December 1992.

“I Don’t Talk Service No More.” The Atlantic, May 1996.

“The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth.” Oxford American, Winter 2005.

IV. MEMOIR

“Combinations of Jacksons.” The Atlantic, May 1999.

V. DRAMA

Delray’s New Moon. Previously unpublished. First performed by the Arkansas Repertory Theatre, April 18, 1996.

EPILOGUE

“Gazette Project Interview with Charles Portis,” conducted by Roy Reed on May 31, 2001, in Little Rock, Arkansas, for the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. The interview has been previously available online at http://pryorcenter.uark.edu/projects/arkansasgazette/CPortis.pdf (accessed June 18, 2012). Reprinted here courtesy of Special Collections, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, and the Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History.

APPENDIX

“Comedy in Earnest,” by Roy Blount Jr., was adapted for this collection from two essays that were originally published in the Oxford American (“True Lit,” March–May 1999; later reprinted in his collection Long Time Leaving) and Arkansas Life (“Charles Portis,” December 2010). Used here by permission of the author.

“Like Cormac McCarthy, but Funny,” by Ed Park, originally appeared in The Believer, March 2003. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Our Least-Known Great Novelist,” by Ron Rosenbaum, originally appeared in Esquire, January 1998. The essay was reprinted in his collection The Secret Parts of Fortune (Random House, 2000) as “Charles Portis and the Locked Trunk Secret” and as an afterword to The Dog of the South (Overlook, 1999). Reprinted here by permission of the author.

“On True Grit,” by Donna Tartt, originally appeared as the introduction to a paperback edition of the book published in the U.K. by Bloomsbury in 2005. It was reprinted as the introduction to a paperback published by Overlook in 2007. Reprinted here by permission of International Creative Management, Inc. © 2004 by Donna Tartt.

“The Book that Changed My Life: Gringos,” by Wells Tower, originally appeared in GQ, June 2011. Reprinted here by permission of the author.