“…they promise an ardent and active co-operation”
Aaron Burr to his son-in-law Joseph Alston – referencing a Jefferson address to Congress: “One idea contained in this message is much applauded by our ladies. They unite in the opinion that the ‘energies of the men ought to be principally employed in the ‘multiplication of the race,’ and in this they promise an ardent […]
Escape Velosity. The Literary Genius of Charles Portis. Alex Heard. The New Republic.
Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany by Charles Portis | edited by Jay Jennings Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, 381 pp., $27.95 ONCE AT A party in New York, I met novelist Jonathan Lethem,” Jay Jennings, the editor of Escape Velocity, says in his introduction to this collection of lesser-known writings by and about Charles Portis, the […]
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