CRITICAL MASS: There should be a celebration for 'Charles Portis: Collected Works'
Newspaper writing teaches humility. "It ain't art, and you ain't Hemingway," more than one city editor has growled at a straining-to-rise cub. A newspaper is a factory; it employs mechanics and craftspeople, but whatever art its employees produce is produced on their own time.
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