Won over by a writers' writer

By Alex Beam

March 9, 2004

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Ihave caught the Charles Portis bug, the raging admirational virus that besets writers who first encounter the work of the 70-year-old Arkansas novelist. Portis's tireless champion, the New York Observer columnist Ron Rosenbaum, has called him "the most original, indescribable, sui generis talent overlooked by literary culture in America" and "the subject of a kind of secret society, a small ... (Full Article: 764 Words)