Professor VJ (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Now that the comprehensive exhibition in Athens is well underway, it's time for some serious name-dropping in another direction: What do John Ashberry, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, William Burroughs, Truman Capote, Robert Creeley. my old undergrad teacher Harry Crews, Louise Erdich, Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, Norman Mailer, Ted Mooney, my old undergrad teacher Alain Robbe-Grillet, Salman Rushdie,...
The Book Design Review (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Illustrations by George Corsillo A busy week has kept me out of the bookstores, so here are a few from home. Frequent BDR readers know I'm a big Harry Crews fan, constantly on the prowl for that copy of Naked In Garden Hills that *isn't* $150. (Should you ever see this at a garage sale or whatever, can you pick it up for me? Seriously.) I'm not sure how many Crews books were published in this series;...
The Book Design Review (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
Painting by Amy Bennett Design by Paul Buckley "Do you read all the books you blog about?" is the question I'm most often asked about The BDR. It's also the most frequently-leveled criticism (yes, I get hate mail). The obvious answer is no. I don't read all the books whose covers we discuss here, nor do I think I need to. But certainly there are times when the choices made in the design of...
Maggie Reads (Free subscription) | 05/24/2009
Southern Reading and the Livin' is Easy! Hope you got a chance to start on one of your chosen books this week. Stella at Growing with Stella discovered Harry Crews' Blood and Grits this week and is enjoying her cross country 70s tour. Blood and Grits is a collection of nonfiction essays written for magazines like Playboy and Esquire . She now knows why Harry Crews is called the Father of the Rough...
http://afreeman.org/?feed=rss2 (Free subscription) | 02/25/2009
…shit in the other. See which one fills up first. I love that expression, I’ve always claimed that I heard it a lot growing up in north Florida, but I’m pretty sure that I actually read it first in a Harry Crews novel. Dr. O’C loves it as well. Just ask her. As apparently does Green Day. But [...]
Free lyrics (Free subscription) | 02/03/2009
don't say you won't see your ?mother ? i hope she don't swallow that shit you
Fimoculous.com (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Decent: Vice Magazine Fiction Issue . Includes interviews with Harold Bloom , Ursula Le Guin , Frederik Pohl , Harry Crews , Martin Amis
enthusiasm (Free subscription) | 10/21/2008
(possibly) related: Harry Crews John Prine and Iris DeMent - In Spite of Ourselves links for 2008-01-26: Donald Barthelme, Malki’s Expendable Our Town - Iris Dement Marquee Moon
Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Finally. Harry Crews is selected for induction into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame.
Syntax of Things (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
1. Mel Tillis and Harry Crews have been recommended for the 2009 Florida Artists Hall of Fame by the Florida Arts Council. Interesting combination to say the least. 2. Ron Rash's new novel, Serena, hits store shelves this week. Here's...
The Taming of the Band-Aid (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
From the beginning pages of Harry Crews' "Celebration": From far away, a siren started. It was coming this way. “Another one,” he said. “Maybe not,” she said. She was far more optimistic than he in these matters. “It’s another one,” he said. “It’s been a while. We’re due for a turnover.” That’s what they called it when...
Stephen Bodio's Querencia (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
A Childhood by Harry Crews (also re-read: Florida Frenzy .) Harry Crews is probably in his seventies, a professor of writing in Florida, and grew p among the rural poor of north Florida and southern Georgia. A Childhood is his memoir of that. Somebody in the NYTBR said that it is "..about a part of America that has rarely, except among books like this, been properly discovered." I am tempted...
Brit Lit Blogs (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
There’s a three-part feature on Harry Crews in the current issue of The Georgia Review , including unpublished material from Crews ‘ archival papers housed at the University of Georgia. In his introduction, Review editor Stephen Corey says, “Harry Crews is not merely a describer, though he is a describer par excellence, beating beautifully on Flaubert's cracked kettle of language....
Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 04/28/2008
If my brief excerpt from Harry Crews’ autobiography-in-progress got you curious to read more, you're in luck, maybe. Today I’m giving away a copy of that issue of The Georgia Review. It's funny: I haven't been to the Peach State since I drove through from Tallahassee while moving here in ‘99, but as luck [...]
Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
Whatever you think of Harry Crews, you've got to give him this: the man has never shrunk from candor. The strength and fury of his writing surges from his bluntness. “I never wanted to be well-rounded,” he has said. “I do not admire well-rounded people nor their work. So far [...]
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