Harry Crews - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• Kim Gordon (of Sonic Youth), Lydia Lunch and Sadie Mae named their band Harry Crews after him. They released one album, Naked in Garden Hills, in 1989.

• Canadian pop band Men Without Hats has a song called "Harry Crews" on their 1991 album Sideways.

• Colorado band Drag The River has a song called "Mr. Crews" on their 2006 album It's Crazy.

• Crews was the subject of the first installment of the Rough South documentary series written and directed by Gary Hawkins. The film, entitled The Rough South of Harry Crews won a regional Emmy Award and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's Gold Award in 1992.

• In the documentary, Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus (2004), Crews tells his grisly homespun Southern stories while walking down a rural dirt track.

• Crews played a brief role in Sean Penn's The Indian Runner and dedicated his book Scar Lover to Penn.

• In 2007, another documentary was released: Harry Crews – Survival is Triumph Enough. The personal format is loosely based on an interview with artist and filmmaker Tyler Turkle, and the themes explored include hardship, tragedy and loss throughout the Crews' life.

• Kansas City band Season_to_Risk wrote and recorded a song on their first album in 1993, entitled "Snakes", which is inspired by the Crews novel "A Feast of Snakes"

• Florida_Trend magazine released a posthumous interview with Harry Crews in April 2012. The interview is in Crews' own words, with quotes such as, "I’ve never begun a novel that I knew how it ended. I just start and try to find out what it is I think about whatever it is I am writing about." Another quote: "Listen, if you want to write about all sweetness and light and that stuff, go get a job at Hallmark."