Really informative essay over at The New York Times about Charles Portis, author of True Grit, the novel that inspired the John Wayne classic and the Coen brothers redo. NYT writer Carlo Rotella relays his own person meetings with Portis and goes so far as to claim True Grit stands as the “the great comic Western novel.”
(via Maud Newton)
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