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A well-deserved honor for a great coach and a better man. If you want a picture of Coach Cox in action, he’s the main figure in my book Carry the Rock: Race, Football, and the Soul of an American City.

New TrueSouth TV from Bluefoot Entertainment on SEC Network premiers tonight, October 8, at 8E. Little Rock ahoy!

If you need a Friday dose of hope and inspiration, read this beautiful paean to a coach and his devotion to his community.

FFS, The New Yorker. When your “automated voice” mispronounces both the subject and the author of the story, you need to rethink your AI choices. Be better. Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Temptations of Narrative newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

I hold immense gratitude for the Little Rock Nine, whose brave actions shaped American history. Today, I reflect on the life of Thelma Mothershed Wair, whose resilience and commitment to justice and education left an unforgettable legacy. Her courage continues to inspire us all.

I love my Charles Portis silo on this hell site but staying here is getting less and less tolerable. I have a placeholder account at the butterfly clouds under the same @ name as here, so you can find me there. This profile will stay up for a while but I won't be posting.

To celebrate WorldBookDay at NATE, members of our team want to share what they’re reading. Anthony, NATE’s Director, says: ‘I’ve been reading Charles Portis’s novel True Grit: a fabulous story told in the idioms of the American South - evocative and unforgettable.' #WorldBookDay

Lily Scherlis “A secret in Mexico has the life of a mayfly. Such was the folk wisdom.” A never-before-published story from Charles Portis’s unfinished novel The Woman from Nowhere. harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

More about the new Charles Portis novel excerpt from the Arkansas Democrat Gazette — and me arkansasonline.com/news/2025/mar/…

#TBT 24 years ago this week, I reconnected with my former student Rhett Miller for a piece about Old 97's for Time Out New York.

The always thought-provoking Dorian Stuber made me think about *where* we read and how that affects what we’re reading there. eigermonchjungfrau.blog

Under my plan we would give this book to every american child.

Okay, it’s been 48 hours, and I don’t think Dan Bern has dropped a song about the baseball-loving, jazz-trombone-playing Chicago Pope yet. Expecting it any minute now.

Jay Jennings Listen to The Tony Kornheiser Show Monday!

Small towns in red states overwhelmingly voted in support of cutting federal spending in their own backyard. Now the future of their libraries—and their communities—is in flux. buff.ly/lzGnvVk

If you're around Little Rock on June 4th, join author Alex Vernon for the launch of his new Tim O’Brien biography, Peace is a Shy Thing, on June 4 at WordsWorth Books. Jay Jennings will be moderating the discussion. wordsworthbookstore.com/event/2025-06-…

Cops bust into the newspaper in their small town and seize its computers and reporting files. The publisher scrambles to figure out: Why’s this happening? Who’s behind it? Then something even more terrible happens. A story I thought I knew — but I did not. Part 1 just dropped.👇🏼

“…one of the things that I’ve always loved about Charles Portis…after ‘True Grit,’ after ‘The Dog of the South,’ after all of his success, he would call himself an old newspaper man, and I think I’m never quite too far from that.” Jess Walter spokesman.com/stories/2025/j…

Congratulations to Eli Cranor for making the longlist for the Mark Twain American Voice prize for BROILER. Pope County proud! Eli is as fearless and hardworking a writer as there is.

Charles Portis visited Dublin in 1964, and sandwiched a stop at “James Joyce’s Martello tower” between Sterling Hayden in mufti and a straitjacket escapist. ⁦James Joyce Tower⁩