'A Feast of Snakes', Harry Crews. 'Forced Entries The Downtown Diaries: 1971-1973', Jim Carroll. ,----[ http://www.upress.state.ms.us/catalog/spring2001/persp_on_harry_crews.html ] | 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. `---- |