That Hideous Farce and Other Offenses
Bookish Diversions: Charles Portis, C.S. Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Shirley Jackson, Our Scary Past, More
¶ True laughs. True Grit author Charles Portis and I share a birthday. I discovered this when thumbing through the recently published Library of America edition of his collected works. One thing I’d known long before? We also share a sense of humor. I discovered that while reading his novels.



