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Harry Crews: Out of the Gates, Slowly Bleeding – Alternative Reel On William Faulkner: “Faulkner’s rhetoric is the sea around us whose depth more than one of us has drowned. He is such an overwhelming talent that he has damaged a whole generation of writers, because they all come along and try to be Faulkner…
Harry Crews – Carleton Auditorium, University of Florida, Gainesville. ca. 1980
ENTERING FREAK CITY: HANGING OUT WITH HARRY CREWS The hardnosed, hard-living Southern writer once dubbed himself ‘Freak City’ and, despite a lifestyle that would have floored most people, kept a teaching gig at the University of Florida for nearly 40 years while also writing novels, memoirs and essays. Gary Lippman befriended the crusty writer over…