The others are very different from this one and all different from each other but all are great.

Your reminder that Charles Portis published only one short humor piece there and that likely only because his friend Bill Whitworth was an editor. He somehow managed to get himself into the Library of American without having won any prizes. Keep writing what you need to write…

Thank you!

“…by end of business…” says it all.

and, of course, sold the book, which isn’t as much this year’s writing but does portend some level of future writing bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Nicely put. Even without the True Grit best-sellerdom and movie money, he would have gone his own way.

So true. He asked me about using a word processor one time, saying, “How do you consider other options when you can’t write them between the lines?” The collection also has some great letters to him from Bill Whitworth, Bob Gottlieb and Lynn Nesbit.

Brenner, by Hermann Berger. One of the most bonkers books, in the best way, I’ve ever read but no one I know has read it.

The illustrator of the great cover is Dagmar Frinta. www.dfrinta.com

I remember the bartender at Town Pump asking him, “Charlie, are you going to put me in your next book?” And he replied “You don’t want to be in that one.” That would be Gringos, which came out in 1991.

Can recite whole sides of Firesign Theatre albums…

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Another one that didn’t turn out like you wanted but have you read The Game, George Howe Colt’s book about 1968 Harvard-Yale? I really liked it.

Thanks for the opportunity. Took some time to wrestle with this one. arktimes.com/rock-candy/2...

Wow. My desert island book. I wrote a paper in college on Sterne’s use of dashes.

Salad made by a robot. Yum.

“Sweetgreen has been focusing on automation after it bought Spyce, a Boston restaurant company that developed robotic kitchen and conveyor belt technology, in 2021.”

By Foote and the editor. I’ve also always been a Foote fan.