Harry Crews – Cannonball Read 17

A Childhood: Biography of a Place

A Childhood by Harry Crews

August 10, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I went back and looked at when this was originally published, which was 1978. I was wondering about this because of one, how this situates within Harry Crews’s writing career and two, how it situates within the broader publishing world of a certain kind of Southern US literature. The memoir is harrowing and amazing. It’s called “Biography of a Place” because so much of the memoir is not about Crews at all, and most is not told from memories, but of memories of being told. […]

Mixed Grill

Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates Jr

Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin

Who will Pay Reparations on my Soul? by Jesse McCarthy

Middle Passage by Charles Johnson

How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr

We Had a Little Real Estate Problem by Kliph Nesteroff

Dreamland by Sam Quinones

The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould

Necronomicon by HP Lovecraft

Black Flags, Blue Waters by Eric Jay Dolin

The Iliad by Homer

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Whores for Gloria by William T Vollmann

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

Celebration by Harry Crews

A Feast of Snakes by Harry Crews

Gravel Heart by Abdulrazak Gurnah

October 18, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Stony the Road – 5/5 Stars Yet another book that presented answers to questions in part, but mostly added to my reading list, this slight book by Henry Louis Gates Jr. was written to support a documentary and to provide additional resources, analysis, and insight into the post-Civil War Reconstruction and Jim Crow periods in the US. For a more robust understanding of the Reconstruction era, Gates points us to WEB Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in America, which was one of the first extensive histories […]

All We Need of Hell – Harry Crews (1988)

All We Need of Hell by Harry Crews

September 13, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

If you told me you hated Harry Crews and everything he wrote, I wouldn’t argue with you. But if you ever make Florida Man jokes, and maybe need to understand a little more, well, he’d be a good source. Harry Crews writes about toxic masculinity, and especially in the cases where said masculinities are not explored within the minds and hearts of its adherents. Duff Deeter is a small town lawyer in Florida, cheating on his wife, who is cheating on him with his legal […]

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