True Grit  is one of the great American classics—a sensational, dryly comic coming-of-age tale set after the Civil War.   Appeal...

Everyone knows that books make the best gifts, right? If you’re reading this blog you probably agree with us. Last year, Overlook got into t...

To celebrate today's release of the True Grit DVD, Overlook Press is giving away three sets of the entire Charles Portisbacklist : True ...

In case you were stuck working at 1:30 this afternoon and missed the great discussion between Lynn Nesbit, Carlo Rotella and Overlook publis...

This morning brought the exciting news that True Grit was nominated for 10 Academy Awards , trailing only The King's Speech , which rec...

Yesterday, we got the extremely exciting news that True Grit will be the next #1 on the New York Times bestseller for trade paperback ficti...

A very happy birthday to Charles Portis , one of our most beloved authors. Hope you all got copies of True Grit --or even better, other Port...

Chip McGrath profiles our man in Little Rock for The New York Times today: "The arrival of the Coen brothers’ movie “True Grit” on W...

...to bring you this fantastic piece about TRUE GRIT by Malcolm Jones in Newsweek . Much like how dessert is our favorite part of any meal,...

An older photo of Charles Portis. A special guest post from Overlook publisher Peter Mayer , on his trip to Arkansas to meet Charles Portis ...

We are, of course, avid devotees of Publishers Weekly , but it's nice to see our very own publicity director quoted in their pages about...

And of course, Matt Damon's not alone--Portis has long been considered one of the great living American novelists and True Grit is belo...

which hits stores on November 5! You've probably heard about the new movie based on the novel, opening December 25 from the Coen Brothe...

Author and humorist Roy Blount writes about his favorite Southern novels in The Wall Street Journal - and includes Norwood by Charles Por...

Joel and Ethan Coen are working on an adaptation of the classic western True Grit by Charles Portis for their next project. According to V...

Check out this rave from Joshua Ferris in the September issue of GQ magazine for the great Charles Portis : "Forget the Apatow ascent...

The Baltimore Sun's Kevin Cowherd offers a money-back guarantee for readers of The Dog of the South , by Charles Portis : "If you...

Jenny Shank takes a look at Charles Portis's classic novel True Grit in New West , the fine magazine and website that bills itself as ...

In a recent essay on Salon , Allen Barra celebrates the 40th anniversary of True Grit , the Charles Portis classic recently reissued by The...

Great notice today of Overlook's triumphant reissue of Charles Portis' True Grit , with a foreward by Ms. Donna Tartt on Papercu...