True Grit

  • True Grit

The Arkansas Studies Institute will screen the “Charles Portis: The Greatest Writer You’ve Never Heard Of…” at 7:30. The 30-minute documentary includes interview with Nora Ephron, Roy Blount Jr. and Oxford American Editor Marc Smirnoff.

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After that, mosey on over to Riverfest Amphitheater for Movies in the Park’s presentation of the 2010 Coen brothers film “True Grit,” based on Portis’s 1968 novel.

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