Escape Velocity

For those who care about literature or simply love a good laugh (or both), Charles Portis has long been one of America's most admired novelists. His 1968 novel True Grit is fixed in the contemporary canon, and four more have been hailed as comic masterpieces. Now, for the first time, his other writingsjournalism, travel stories, short fiction, memoir, and even a playhave been brought together in Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany, his first new book in more than twenty years