Harry Crews (1935 – 2012)
“In the final essay, ‘Climbing the Tower,’ he contemplates the relationship between futility, violence, and creativity: ‘I know what it means to live in an atmosphere of perpetual failure,’ he admits. ‘Inevitably, it is out of this base of failure that we try to rise again and do another thing.’ ”
Harry Crews, about Blood and Grits
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