Getting Naked with Harry Crews

"Harry Crews cannot refrain from storytelling. These conversations are blessed with countless insights into the creative process, fresh takes on old questions, and always, Crews’s stories: modern-day parables that tell us how it is to live, to work, and to hurt."—Jeff Baker, Oxford American

"Harry Crews has indelible ways of approaching life and the craft of writing. This collection shows that he elevates both to a near-religious artform."—Matthew Teague, Oxford American

“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