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DIED. Victoria Ocampo, 88, Argentina's "Queen of Letters" for nearly half a century; in Buenos Aires. Educated in Europe, Ocampo in 1931 founded Sur, an avant-garde Spanish literary magazine that introduced to her countrymen such established foreign authors as Shaw, Faulkner, Sartre and Camus as well...
...South Crews presents in his novels (Car, A Feast of Snakes, and The Gypsy's Curse, to name three of the better ones) is inventive, absurdist, existential, savagely funny--like a script by William Faulkner and Jean-Paul Sartre. Good books, some of those novels, but sometimes just too frustratingly weird. Crews also used to write a column called "Grits" for the pre-Felker Esquire, and the best of them stick in your memory like Georgia mud to your boots--an old, nearly-blind mule trader sagely discusses the art and artifices of a trade that is almost dead...
...great themes of American literature is the subversion of normalcy, by presenting the gothic element in American life (Poe), the hungering force of a dusky past (Hawthorne), or the explosive curse of vice (Faulkner). Similarly, when we look closely at Jones's life, neither it nor the midwest seems so blithely "normal." For Jones was half-Indian, and in the midwest in the '50s you were not allowed to forget that very long--you were an outsider. At age 18, Jones became a Maoist and made the intellectual synthesis on which he would build his church: that religion is indeed...
...sexual division of labor than John Irving. His first three novels are Setting Free the Bears. The WaterMethod Man, and The 158-Pound Marriage. They went nowhere, but they are being re-issued in paperback. It seems that this book was written for much the same reason that Faulkner sensationalized Sanctuary--after three, the author begins to wonder where the fame and fortune are. But underneath the sensationalism and violence there is a very good book. The best of 1978. We're landing, and who knows where or on what. But we're not in Kansas any more...
Marvin Molar, who walks on his hands and can balance on a finger; Herman Mack, who eats an entire car; Joe Lon Mackey, a homicidal sadist. This gallery of grotesques could only have been invented by Harry Crews, a Southern gothic novelist who often makes William Faulkner look pastoral by comparison...