Escape velocity
Subtitle: a Charles Portis miscellany
By: edited and with an introduction by Jay Jennings ; cover art and illustrations by Mike Reddy
Contributors: Jennings, Jay
Publisher: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Little Rock, AR
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781935106500
Subjects: Appreciation
Work titles: Selections
Table of contents: title: Elected newspaper reporting and writing. Memphis commercial appeal (1958); title: Arkansas gazette (1959-1960); title: New York herald tribune (1960-1964); title: General assignment; title: Rights reporting; title: London bureau; title: Travels; title: That new sound from Nashville; title: An auto odyssey through darkest Baja; title: The forgotten river; title: Motel life, lower reaches; title: Short stories.  Your action line; title: Nights can turn cool in Viborra; title: I don't talk service no more; title: The wind bloweth where it listeth; title: Memoir.  Combinations of Jacksons; title: Drama. Delray's new moon; title: Epilogue. interview[s]; title: Gazette project interview (by Roy Reed); title: Tributes.  Comedy in earnest (by Roy Blount Jr.); title: Like Cormac McCarthy, but funny (by Ed Park); title: Our least-known great novelist (by Ron Rosenbaum); title: Afterword to True grit (by Donna Tartt); title: The book that changed my life: Gringos (by Wells Tower).