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A look into the poor-white world of one of the South's spellbinding storytellers
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I studied with Harry early in his career at the University of Florida. For anyone interested in digging into the works of Harry, this is the book. How I wish there were more.
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odd blend of academia and Crews-appreciation,
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For some reason, academia and Harry Crews do not quite mesh together. (I am being facetious.) Crews wore a mohawk to his instructor position at a college. He also got frustrated with his academic coworkers and slammed down an armful of his books onto the table when questioned on his merit. The best pieces in this collection are by non-academics (like Larry Brown). Maybe it's just me, but the academics contributing just over-analyze and use big words and really kill the spirit of Crews' writing. I'm sure they appreciate Crews, but Crews' work is understood on another level, a non-academic, human, primal, dark, honest level. Though sometimes and somewhat interesting, I can't see Crews himself going much for these academic dissections of his work. The best thing is probably to read Crews firsthand and avoid the endless, jargon-laden, subjective analyses by academics.
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I've been reading Harry Crews for so long that I can't really remember when I first discovered his work. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
eating everthing else, heterosexual performative, karate body, karate group, autobiographical authority, performative body, heterosexual normativity, rattlesnake roundup, whiskey priest, literary naturalism, naturalistic novel, white masculinity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Joe Lon, Harry Crews, Feast of Snakes, Lottie Mae, Gaye Nell Odell, Bacon County, Garden Hills, Graham Greene, Shereel Dupont, Big Joe, New Orleans, Ray Crews, Hard Candy, New York, Scar Lover, The Knockout Artist, Duffy Deeter, Susan Gender, Boss Snake, Buddy Matlow, Wiregrass Country, John Kaimon, The Hawk Is Dying, University of Florida, Larry Brown New!
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I've been reading Harry Crews for so long that I can't really remember when I first discovered his work. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
eating everthing else, heterosexual performative, karate body, karate group, autobiographical authority, performative body, heterosexual normativity, rattlesnake roundup, whiskey priest, literary naturalism, naturalistic novel, white masculinity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Joe Lon, Harry Crews, Feast of Snakes, Lottie Mae, Gaye Nell Odell, Bacon County, Garden Hills, Graham Greene, Shereel Dupont, Big Joe, New Orleans, Ray Crews, Hard Candy, New York, Scar Lover, The Knockout Artist, Duffy Deeter, Susan Gender, Boss Snake, Buddy Matlow, Wiregrass Country, John Kaimon, The Hawk Is Dying, University of Florida, Larry Brown New!
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- A Feast of Snakes: A Novel by Harry Crews on 39 pages
- The Gospel Singer: A Novel by Harry Crews on 24 pages
- Karate Is a Thing of the Spirit: A Novel by Harry Crews on 15 pages
- A Childhood: The Biography of a Place by Harry E. Crews on 12 pages
- Scar Lover by Harry Crews on 10 pages
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