His sporting blood turned to horsepiss

This interview with Charles Portis, on his days a young reporter, for an oral history project about the Arkansas Gazette newspaper is so wonderful.

Lady stringers:

On Tom Wolfe and Malcolm X:

They made movies out of several Portis books:

is one and

is another.

What does Charles Portis make of all this I wonder?

Click on this link for an amazing picture of William Woodruff sailing up the Mississippi with his printing presses.