![]() ![]() Then in January Ron Rosenbaum wrote another piece about Portis, in Esquire, calling him ‘our least known great novelist’ … and the books were now available. ![]() We tried to acquire them … but there were some problems with rights, I believe. I tracked down copies at the Strand, read them and instantly became a Portis convert. Now let’s let Tracy Carns, publishing director of Overlook Press (founded by Peter Mayer), take up the story “Over the years,” she says in the release accompanying The Dog of the South, “I had heard about these novels by the reclusive author but had never read them.… Then, about four years ago, I read an article by Ron Rosenbaum in The New York Observer raving about how great Portis was and what a scandal it was that the books were out of print. Portis an American analogue of Gogol, both hilarious and profound–and raged intemperately that it was “a crime and a scandal, it’s virtually clinically insane, that Portis’ last three books are out of print and not in paperback … some smart publisher will earn an honored place in literary history by bringing out a complete and accessible edition soon.” In my Esquire piece (“Our Least-Known Great Novelist,” January 1998), I’d called Mr. ![]()
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