Blood, Bone and Marrow: A Biography of Harry Crews Thursday, March 22, 2018 $10 2:30 – 3:45 PM River’s Crossing campus Harry Crews’ life of poverty as he grew up in 1930's … [Read more...]
11/16/17 Boston University School of Journalism
Come on out for the northernmost Harry Crews event since the early 1980s! Crews biographer Ted Geltner will be in conversation with Boston University writing instructor Jay Atkinson, who studied with … [Read more...]
“Harry Crews Is A Stomp-Down Hard-Core Moralist” by Steve Oney
What a fine coincidence that the paperback edition of Blood, Bone, and Marrow: A Biography of Harry Crews by Ted Geltner (foreword by Michael Connelly) releases on the exact same day that, forty years … [Read more...]
Harry Crews’ Literary Bestiary | National Pet Day
A man born (and almost killed) on a rural Georgia farm alongside hogs during the Great Depression may come to regard animals differently than those who only ever know them as pets. While Harry Crews … [Read more...]
When Writing a Biography Becomes a Race Against Death
This essay originally appeared on Literary Hub on February 22, 2017. Of all the conversations I had while writing my most recent book, I remember one particular exchange distinctly. The man I … [Read more...]
“One Morning in February”
Well, whaddya know; it's one morning in February. Seems the perfect time to share "One Morning in February" with you then. Harry Crews received the Best Nonfiction Award for this essay from … [Read more...]
Copy of Merry Crewsmas, Happy Crewsukkah, & Harry Holidays!
There are only twelve more days until Christmas and but 8 days until Hanukkah. In Christianity, the twelve days of Christmas actually refer to the twelve days "from Dec. 25, celebrated as the birth of … [Read more...]
Merry Crewsmas, Happy Crewsukkah, & Harry Holidays!
There are only twelve more days until Christmas and but 8 days until Hanukkah. In Christianity, the twelve days of Christmas actually refer to the twelve days "from Dec. 25, celebrated as the birth of … [Read more...]
The Moonshine of Harry Crews
The recent Full Harvest Moon on September 16th delivered a powerful message. Such radiance, hanging low in the sky, already mesmerizes, and at first the moon just playfully called to mind instances … [Read more...]
Harry Crews and David Duke
The man The Atlantic magazine recently called “America’s most famous racist,” David Duke, is back in the news this month. Duke, the former KKK leader and Louisiana political candidate from the ‘90s, … [Read more...]
