'A Feast of Snakes', Harry Crews.

'Forced Entries The Downtown Diaries: 1971-1973', Jim Carroll.

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| Critics have called Harry Crews a "mad genius" and
| "Flannery O'Connor on steroids." His novels chronicle
| the southern world on the edge of insanity. His
| characters set out to eat an entire car on national
| television, attend rattlesnake round-ups, and become
| obsessed with training hawks when their suburban lives
| collapse. Crews has created a bizarre literary
| landscape, and this book is a critical collection
| devoted to helping readers traverse it.
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