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Daniel Moran's avatar

Excellent reminder of Portis’s singular genius. I used to teach Gringos to high school seniors—those were the days! I also have a stack of letters from CP, typed on his manual typewriter, that I’ll share sometime on this platform.

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A Day For Clouds's avatar

Love all the novels but my single favorite thing by Portis might be Motels, Lower Reaches in the Collected Works.

"I drove up to Truth or Consequences on a whim, going out of my way to look around. I could find no trace of the old yellow cabins, not even locate the sight. Things disappear too, utterly. "

Charles Portis actually is who people think Hemingway is....the man just simply wrote the best sentences.

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