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Charles Portis

About

Charles Portis is a former newspaper reporter for the Commercial Appeal (Memphis), the Arkansas Gazette, and the New York Herald Tribune. He is the author of five novels: Norwood, True Grit, The Dog of the South, Masters of Atlantis, and Gringos.

Articles

Issue 43, January / February 2003

Motel Life, Lower Reaches

The three-dollar place was an old “tourist court,” a horseshoe arrangement of ramshackle cabins, all joined together by narrow carports.

By Charles Portis
Issue 48, Winter 2005

The Wind Bloweth Where it Listeth

Futurists at our leading universities tell us the day is at hand when, out of this maelstrom of words, a glorious literature must emerge, and indeed flourish.

By Charles Portis
Issue 78, Fall 2012

Delray’s New Moon

By Charles Portis