by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 20, 2014 | Alvin Josephy, Big Read, Eliza Spalding, High Noon, Molly Gloss, Shane, True Grit
Fishtrap brought novelist Molly Gloss to town last week to further the Big Read discussion of Charles Portis’s book, True Grit. Molly’s task was to trace the role of women from “dime novels” to the present day. True Grit, written about a time and place—Arkansas and...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 13, 2014 | Alvin Josephy, Big Read, bushwhackers, Charles Portis, Fishtrap, jayhawkers, John Wayne, Kansas, Lawrence, Quantrill, Rooster Cogburn, Sterling Price, True Grit
Fishtrap—the old literary non-profit that kept me going for over 20 years, is back with another National Endowment for the Arts sponsored “Big Read” this month. The book is Charles Portis’s True Grit—the tale of a 14 year-old girl named Mattie Ross avenging her...
