Audio Interview with Harry Crews

In this 1990 interview Don Swaim talks with Harry Crews, author of Body, Celebration, A Feast of Snakes, The Gospel Singer, Karate Is a Thing of the Spirit, and Naked in Garden Hills. Crews tells why he admires the works of Graham Greene. Forcing the reader to make a moral judgment about the characters in his novels is a goal for Harry Crews, and he feels that fiction is not a forum to make a political point. "If you want to send a message, go to Western Union," he says. Crews discusses his novel, Body, and tells of the many hours he has spent working out in the gymnasium.

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For many years most of the best writers of the English language found their way to Don Swaim's CBS Radio studio in New York. Wired for Books is proud to webcast these interviews in RealAudio.