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Escape velocity : a Charles Portis miscellany
- Title
- Escape velocity : a Charles Portis miscellany / edited and with an introduction by Jay Jennings ; cover art and illustrations by Mike Reddy.
- Author
- Portis, Charles.
- Publication
- Little Rock, Ark. : Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, c2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 12-7181 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Jennings, Jay, 1957-
- Description
- xxii, 358 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Uniform Title
- Works. Selections. 2012
- Alternative Title
- Works. 2012
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Elected newspaper reporting and writing. Memphis commercial appeal (1958) -- Arkansas gazette (1959-1960) -- New York herald tribune (1960-1964) -- General assignment -- Rights reporting -- London bureau -- Travels -- That new sound from Nashville -- An auto odyssey through darkest Baja -- The forgotten river -- Motel life, lower reaches -- Short stories. Your action line -- Nights can turn cool in Viborra -- I don't talk service no more -- The wind bloweth where it listeth -- Memoir. Combinations of Jacksons -- Drama. Delray's new moon -- Epilogue. interview[s] -- Gazette project interview (by Roy Reed) -- Tributes. Comedy in earnest (by Roy Blount Jr.) -- Like Cormac McCarthy, but funny (by Ed Park) -- Our least-known great novelist (by Ron Rosenbaum) -- Afterword to True grit (by Donna Tartt) -- The book that changed my life: Gringos (by Wells Tower).
- Call Number
- JFE 12-7181
- ISBN
- 9781935106500 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1935106503 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2012018195
- OCLC
- 793911008
- Author
- Portis, Charles.
- Title
- Escape velocity : a Charles Portis miscellany / edited and with an introduction by Jay Jennings ; cover art and illustrations by Mike Reddy.
- Imprint
- Little Rock, Ark. : Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, c2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Added Author
- Jennings, Jay, 1957-
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-7181