Contents

Also by Charles Portis

Introduction, by Jay Jennings

One. SELECTED 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

Two: TRAVELS

That New Sound from Nashville

An Auto Odyssey through Darkest Baja

The Forgotten River

Motel Life, Lower Reaches

Three: SHORT STORIES

Damn!

Your Action Line

Nights Can Turn Cool in Viborra

I Don’t Talk Service No More

The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth

Four: MEMOIR

Combinations of Jacksons

Five: DRAMA

Delray’s New Moon

Epilogue: INTERVIEW

Gazette Project Interview with Charles Portis

Appendix: TRIBUTES

Comedy in Earnest

Like Cormac McCarthy, but Funny

Our Least-Known Great Novelist

On True Grit

The Book That Changed My Life: Gringos, by Wells Tower

Sources

Acknowledgements

Also by Charles Portis

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