In a Larry Brown collection of essays entitled BILLY RAY'S
FARM
(2001), there is a piece entitled "Harry Crews: Mentor and
Friend" where he writes about how Crews' example kept him
writing despite all the rejections. "By 1985 I had written
five unpublished novels and almost one hundred short stories
that had for the most part, gone begging also. I'd sold one
story to 'Easyriders', one to 'Fiction International,' and
one to a now-defunct magazine in New York called 'Twilight
Zone.'"
His sales to the literary magazines came with his
breakthrough story "Facing the Music." I used to subscribe to
the Twilight Zone and will now have to dig through my issues
to see if I have the one with that Larry Brown story. I do
recall that TZ always did have a good eye for fresh
talent.
Brown sent his first book to Crews who gave it a good blurb
and years later read in a published interview that Crews had
tried to call him. He dropped Crews a note and they soon met
and became fast friends. I imagine they kept the bartenders
busy when they were out on the town together.
Richard Moore
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, DJ-Anonyme@w... wrote:
> Richard brought up the movie Big Bad Love, based on
a Larry Brown
story.
> According to the Post obit, there's another movie
involving him, a
> documentary entitled The Rough South of Larry
Brown.
>
> Something else that stuck me was this line: "He
began finding his
work
> accepted by the motorcycle magazine Easyriders and
Mississippi
Review,
> where the Algonquin editor first noticed his
abiities." Quite an
> interesting pair there.
>
> Mark
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