6/26/2023 0 Comments Charles portis![]() We also premiered a film adaptation of his short story “ I Don’t Talk Service No More” along with an interview with filmmaker Katrina Whelan. His two original pieces for the magazine include “ Motel Life, Lower Reaches” and “ The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth.” In addition, the OA published an excerpt from his one play, Delray’s New Moon, in 2012. The Oxford American honored Portis with an award for Lifetime Achievement in Southern Literature in 2010. He was a longtime contributor to the Oxford American, sometimes personally handing over a manuscript, typed on his trusty manual Olivetti-Underwood, to OA founder and then-editor Marc Smirnoff. Portis, who is best known as the author of True Grit (though perhaps best loved as the author of cult favorite The Dog of the South), grew up in Hamburg, Arkansas, and lived in Little Rock for more than four decades. ![]() He Oxford American joins the literary world in mourning the writer Charles Portis, who died on Monday morning at age eighty-six. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |