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A Journalist with True Grit
<p>The novelist Charles Portis, best known for his novels <i>Norwood</i> and <i>True Grit</i>, was also a brilliant reporter, and with the likes of Tom Wolfe and Jimmy Breslin, helped introduce New Journalism. Jay Jennings, the editor of the new collection <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Escape-Velocity-Charles-Portis-Miscellany/dp/1935106503" target="_blank">Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany</a></i>, on the legacy of Portis’s reporting on the civil rights movement.</p>
Jay Jennings