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""The novelist pulls no punches in these 26 interviews.""--Publishers Weekly ""These conversations are full of gems that reveal Crews's tenacious commitment to the writing life.""--Miami Herald ""Anyone who has a taste for Southern fiction or is an aspiring writer should rush to their nearest bookstore and nab this set of interviews. . . . Crews's words will pump you into literary action.""--Tampa Tribune-Times ""Has plenty that the die-hard Crews fan will like. [Crews] talks often about the writers who influenced him (Graham Greene, Flannery O'Connor, Flaubert, Faulkner), his philosophy of literature, and how he goes about writing.""--Palm Beach Post ""Though Harry Crews is known for his machismo and personal struggles with alcohol and drugs, he appears--more often than not--as a humorous, productive, and often compassionate novelist.""--Charleston Daily News ""Shed[s] a great deal of light not only on Crews's creative process but also on specific novels.""--Southern Quarterly ""A wonderful source for any serious writer. Bledsoe has done a service to students of Southern and Georgia literature by providing a truly remarkable edited work on one of the region's most engaging characters.""--Georgia Library Quarterly

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Harry Crews (1935-2012) was the author of 23 books, including The Gospel Singer, Naked in Garden Hills, This Thing Don’t Lead to Heaven, Karate Is a Thing of the Spirit, Car, The Hawk Is Dying, The Gypsy’s Curse, A Feast of Snakes, A Childhood: The Biography of a Place, Blood and Grits, The Enthusiast, All We Need of Hell, The Knockout Artist, Body, Scar Lover, The Mulching of America, Celebration, and Florida Frenzy. Erik Bledsoe is a writer and former instructor of English and American studies at the University of Tennessee. He has published articles on southern writers and edited a special issue of the Southern Quarterly devoted to Crews. His 1997 interview with Harry Crews from that magazine is included in this collection.

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