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By Carol Memmott and Bob Minzesheimer, USA TODAY
Shy guy: Oscar buzz for the Coen brothers' film version of True Grit pushes Charles Portis' novel into USA TODAY's top 50 this week. The movie tie-in paperback released in November is No. 27. Demand stays strong. "We can barely keep up," says Jack Lamplough of Overlook Press. "We started very conservatively, but we're over 200,000 copies now." True Grit, first published in 1968, is one of five Portis novels, and "we're back to press on all of them," Lamplough says. He adds that Portis' refusal to participate in a media campaign hasn't hurt sales: "We've had all this incredible coverage about him being reclusive." Portis, 78, a resident of Little Rock, is not "Salinger-esque," Lamplough says. "He's a normal person. He just politely turns us down for everything."
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