“provides novel insights into the history of Black working-class activism and racial capitalism in the early twentieth century and the postwar period in the Mississippi Delta.”
“Last spring I went to Rocky Crossing again. New green grass was sprouting on the high ridge of the road that led there…”
The Booker Worthen Literary Prize is awarded each year to the best work, fiction or non-fiction, by an author living in Arkansas.
A discussion about the experience of reading Portis.
“A wonderful, rewarding family memoir that will resonate both for elder veterans of the sixties and seventies ‘back to the land’ counter culture.”
“Cochran brings to light both the sidelong historical ruminations and the sorrowful depths of feeling that admirers have always sensed moving beneath the picaresque plots and the insouciant breezes of Portis’s prose.”