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UAFS to host Charles Portis conference this weekend

Keynote speaker is Little Rock's own Jay Jennings, editor for "Charles Portis: Collected Works." Symposium topics include "Making Up (with) Women: Unapologetic Female Characters in the Fiction of Charles Portis" and "'Meat is Meat': Ethics and Food in Charles Portis's 'Norwood.'"
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The 2023 Porter Fund Literary Prize goes to Jay Jennings

Arkansas journalist Jay Jennings is the newest recipient of the Porter Fund Literary Prize, a $5,000 award given annually to writer of distinction with an Arkansas connection. Jennings has written for Sports Illustrated, Tennis, Time Out New York, Artforum, The New York Times, Travel & Leisure, Vogue, Gravy, The Lowbrow Reader and the Oxford American, where he was an editor from 2015 to 2021.
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Library of America to publish Portis volume

Library of America, the much revered nonprofit publisher of essential works of American literature, will publish a Charles Portis volume in May 2023.

Charles Portis' "Norwood" at 50: A Review

The 50th Anniversary celebration of Portis' "Norwood" is precisely the type of unique, multifaceted, Southern-focused programming that many of us have hoped to see from the partnership between Oxford American and South on Main.
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Oxford American celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Portis' "Norwood"

Oxford American Magazine hosts a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Charles Portis' debut novel, "Norwood."

Oxford American unveils Spring 2015 issue

The Little Rock-based Oxford American magazine has released the cover and details of its Spring 2015 issue, which will be on newsstands March 15. The issue features Hal Crowther, Jamie Quatro, Ron Rash, Little Rock writer Jay Jennings and Jeremy B. Jones, whose great piece on an ancestor's bizarre coded diary is online as of this morning. The issue also features a profile of documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee (by novelist William Giraldi), fiction by John McManus and a pretty stunning, ~12,000 word feature in which writer Justin Nobel tracks the path of a tornado outbreak that hit the South in April 2011
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Reading in the Rock

Summer book picks from locals.

Read a rare interview with Charles Portis about his Arkansas days

Jay Jennings' invaluable Charles Portis collection "Escape Velocity" must have finally been published in the U.K., because the reviews are rolling in and, though universally positive, they sure can get strange. I'm sure the editor is to blame for this one, but the headline for The Spectator's review is particularly noxious: "There's so much mystery around Charles Portis that we're not even clear whether he’s alive." Journalism, etc.
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A report from the Charles Portis Gala at the Governor's Mansion

Last night, the Porter Fund hosted a $200-per-ticket gala to celebrate the Arkansas-born novelist Charles Portis, who was not in attendance. The Fund, started by authors Phillip McMath and Jack Butler in 1984, presents a Lifetime Achievement Award to an Arkansas author every five years, and this year they chose the author of "Norwood," "True Grit," "The Dog of the South," "Masters of Atlantis" and "Gringos," all of which were on sale at a table display in the foyer of the Governor's Mansion when I arrived at 6 p.m.

Porter Fund to honor Charles Portis with Lifetime Achievement Award

The Porter Fund, founded by Little Rock novelists Jack Butler and Phil McMath in 1984, gives a Lifetime Achievement Award to an Arkansas author every five years, and this year's honoree will be Charles Portis, author of "Norwood" and "True Grit" and "Gringos" among others. Portis, notably uncomfortable with attention or public spectacle of any sort, will be celebrated with a $200-per-ticket gala at the Governor's Mansion. The night will feature readings by Jay Jennings, writer and editor of "Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany," Roy Reed, the great journalist and nonfiction writer (and former Porter winner), and Roy Blount, Jr., who once said that Portis "could be Cormac McCarthy if he wanted to, but he'd rather be funny."
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Coming this fall, 'Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany'

Butler Center Books will publish "Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany" this fall.

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