May 18th, 2009 / 8:32 pm
Author Spotlight
‘The Rough South of Larry Brown’
Thanks to Aaron Manning for sending over this wonderful clip from a feature length documentary on Larry Brown, including commentary on how he got started writing, and his early submission/rejection process: how can you not love this man?
Damn I want the rest of this.
Tags: larry brown, rough south
Nice. I wonder where you can get the rest?
Dirty Work is one of my favorite novels.
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In five minutes, he made me want to reconsider the impression I’ve had of him since I first read him: that he was a cut-rate Carver, a Hannah without the grace notes. I don’t know if I’ll be able to completely shed that impression, but this certainly gives me reason to look again.
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you can get the dvd from duke, here:
http://cds.aas.duke.edu/film/larrybrown.html
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May 18th, 2009 / 11:31 pmBlake Butler—
nice, thanks michael!
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May 19th, 2009 / 1:29 pmpr—
great! thanks. I read a coupled of his novels a long time ago but I’m ready to think about him again. Lots of heart, that man.
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People: This documentary rules. I went to Mississippi in 2007 and saw it play at the Oxford Book Festival. Holy shee-it. It’s the coolest documentary I’ve ever seen about a writer. I ordered a copy from the director shortly after and have it around here somewhere. I highly recommend it. It made me cry.
I wrote an article about this trip and it ran in a few newspapers, but now I can’t find it anywhere for the life of me. Crap.
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you can also order a copy from Square Books in Oxford, MS…Larry’s hometown.
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wow i identify with the last part of this video.
what the wife says about him at 5:21
interesting
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Vermint.
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amen, it’s a stellar documentary of a singular talent. director gary hawkins recreates 3 of larry’s stories, brings them to life, which takes some adjusting to, but in the end it works. plus, the larry footage is one of a kind. like he was.
for all you harry crew fans, hawkins made a crews on too:
the rough south of harry crews.” haven’t seen that one, though.
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i have ‘fond memories’ of ‘92 days,’ i think that is what it is called, the long short story where he keeps getting rejected and i think goes to jail
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May 19th, 2009 / 6:00 pmAaron—
yeah, that’s a good one. narrator’s on a bender. my favorite short story of his might be “facing the music” for the way larry slowly reveals the story’s true drama through the most subtle and simple situation: a married couple, in their bedroom, in front of the tv. stellar stuff.
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- when he’s writing he’s his most happy. when not, he’s depressed.
- when he’s writing, just leave him alone, let ‘em right.
…. i think im gonna show this to my family. Let them know I’m not just a basket case…. there are others…
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this is a must see
“If you’re willing to hurt enough you can have it.”
truth
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