Appreciation…

… The Paris Review - On the Alert for Omens: Rereading Charles Portis - The Paris Review. (Hat tiop Dave Lull.)

Portis’s imagination is truly wild—both unhampered and unpredictable—and reading him for the first time required a significant adjustment to all my previously gathered knowledge of what a person can or should put in a novel if they want it to be good. He is unbeatable at the non sequitur, so that every paragraph contains the possibility of crazed escalation.