Anniversary year …

… Give a Shout Out to Charles Portis and His Extraordinary Novel ‘True Grit'. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

In 1968, critics were arguing about whether John Updike’s Couples accurately depicted suburban life, whether Norman Mailer’s Armies of the Night was journalism or literature, or whether Gore Vidal’s Myra Breckinridge was literature at all. I have no way of proving this, but I would bet that True Grit is still read by more people than those three combined.