Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany

Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany is a collection of non-fiction, journalism, short stories, and single play - Delray's New Moon - by the novelist Charles Portis, the author most famous for True Grit. Subjects covered by Portis include the civil rights movement, a road trip in Baja, and Elvis Presley's visit to his aging mother. Some of the works originally appeared in such publications such as the New York Herald Tribune and Saturday Evening Post.[1][2]

Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany
Cover Illustration by Mike Reddy
AuthorCharles Portis
Cover artistMike Reddy
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreMiscellany
PublisherButler Center Books
Publication date
2012
Media typePrint (hardcover) (paperback)
Pages378
ISBN978-1468307399
Preceded byGringos (1991) 

At the time of its first publication in 2012, it was the first work by Portis in twenty-one years since Gringos.

The book also has an epilogue consisting an interview with Charles Portis by Roy Reed; and five appendix tributes to the author by Roy Blount Jr, Ed Park, Ron Rosenbaum, Donna Tartt and Wells Tower.[3]

In the New York Times review of the book, Carlo Rotella said, "You can enjoy Escape Velocity as a stand-alone collection, but a Portis miscellany will always be read too as a key to the experiences and craft lessons that shaped the novels."[4]

Editor

Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany was edited by Jay Jennings.[5]

gollark: So that may be worse data than I thought.
gollark: Oh. Hmm. Yeees.
gollark: At worst I figure they'd probably manage to be off by a factor of two, which puts it at an upper bound of ~4%.
gollark: I actually expected it was *higher* than that, but apparently not?
gollark: I think it's around, what, 15%?

References
  1. Amazon Books: Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany
  2. New York Times book review
  3. Google Books: Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany: Contents
  4. New York Times: Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany
  5. Google Books: Charles Portis: Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany
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