With the publication of a translation of The Dog of the South into Spanish by Barcelona-based @dirtyworks.bsky.social Charles Portis is getting some love from this leading literary site. The writer dives into the @libraryofamerica.bsky.social edition (and name checks yours truly as well).
![SHEPARD TO DARK
January 7, 2007-Kentucky
[handwritten]
Dear John,
Sitting here by the fire in Kentucky on a grayish wet day & happened to notice a book laying randomly on a table— The Dog of the South by our old friend Charlie Portis & remembered that mad day in San Rafael years ago when, stoned of course, we absolutely had to have a copy of that book in our possession. It became a matter of life & death as we rushed over to the library in the white Nova only to discover they were about to close for the day & we began begging & pleading with the librarian how desperate our situation was—how far we'd traveled to get there-how we needed to have that book as though it were our last drink of water. Then, of course, the poor fellow let us in, we located the book, checked it out then, as I remember, neither one of us managed to read more than about five pages of the damn thing & we were on to the next mad caper-stealing bathrobes or something like that. Those were indeed rare & cherished days full of a wild sense of being alive but not having a clue why or what or how.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lxjsf5tg55vsq6t7xanl3vtc/bafkreidvl5p224lwm4cckvsun3eobhbqf4rmg6hev3xophmgjtep55ql34)
