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 […]
The World of Leslie and D.D. Tillett…
…opened last night at the Museum of the City of New York (1220 Fifth Ave., at 103rd St.; 212-534-1672). Camilla and I were introduced to their work by Seth Tillett and Nicole Rauscher, who arranged the exhibition, a couple of years ago and have become great fans, joining ranks with Mrs. Vreeland, Jackie O, Albert Hadley […]