‘True Grit' at 50

(Daily Beast) ... True Grit couldn’t have been farther outside the mainstream of ’60s American literature.
In 1968, critics were arguing about whether John Updike’s Couples accurately depicted suburban life, whether Norman Mailer’s Armies of the Night was journalism or literature, or whether Gore Vidal’s Myra Breckinridge was literature at all. I have no way of proving this, but I would bet that True Grit is still read by more people than those three combined. Continued