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MJ Lenderman on Harry Crews: This Fucked-Up Guy

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MJ Lenderman on Harry Crews: This Fucked-Up Guy
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I came to the work of Harry Crews through word of mouth about the printed page. When I was still a teenager, I used to stay up late on the front porch of my friend’s house, behind a grocery store near downtown Asheville, North Carolina. We’d attempt to write songs, but mostly we’d get drunk and talk about writing and people who had figured out how to do it. One time, he was telling me about this fucked-up guy,

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