Comments on: RIP: Harry Crews. http://brokenpianoforpresident.com/2012/03/30/rip-harry-crews/ Tue, 14 May 2013 19:13:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Patrick Wensink http://brokenpianoforpresident.com/2012/03/30/rip-harry-crews/#comment-77 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:51:50 +0000 http://brokenpianoforpresident.com/?p=252#comment-77 “I didn’t know at the time that words could be used like that.” That’s totally how it felt for me, too! My first Crews was the Knockout Artist. One time, someone asked what I was reading, and I said Crews, and they asked what it was like, and I said: “Like William Faulkner writing National Enquirer articles.” I’ve always Kind of stuck by that.

I actually have a copy of Gospel Singer that I’ve been sitting on, because I wanted to save the reading experience for a good time. This is probably it.

All his 70s stuff is like $100 or more. Supposedly, they’re putting it out digitally soon. Fingers crossed.

]]> By: gabinoiglesias http://brokenpianoforpresident.com/2012/03/30/rip-harry-crews/#comment-76 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:45:03 +0000 http://brokenpianoforpresident.com/?p=252#comment-76 Hey Patrick. Great post. As for being heartbroken, that makes two of us. I was about 16 the first time I read Crews. The Mulching of America. I didn’t know at the time that words could be used like that. Then I read Body and realized that weirdness and honesty could go hand in hand in a brutal combination. I’ll keep my eye out for those 70s novels. Hard task, but you never know what you might find when digging for treasures in a sea of used books.

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