A delightful set of stories ranging from the days of Rimfire Hamrick in Webster County to a. We'll listen back to a conversation he had with Fresh Air's Terry Gross in 2003.Ĭopyright 2021 Fresh Air. Lee Maynard, author of the Crum series and Magnetic North.

Lee Maynard now lives in New Mexico where he heads The Storehouse, a non-profit food pantry in Albuquerque. it might also be called a love letter from a native son to his home place.' In an introduction to Crum, writer Meredith Sue Willis says: 'Each time I read Lee Maynard's Crum, I ask myself why this foul-mouthed, sexist, scatological, hillbilly-stereotyping novel is one of my all-time favorites.' She finally answers that by saying the book 'explores and explodes its stereotypes. The people of Crum who know the book tend to love it or hate it. Maynard based Crum, his 1988 semi-autobiographical novel, on his small, poor West Virginia hometown.

Like his protagonist, Maynard was also in the military in upstate New York, where he was a criminal investigator.Ĭrum and Screaming With the Cannibals have just been re-released in new paperback editions. The Scummers is the last installment in Maynards Crum trilogy. 8 on the Doubleday Best Seller List and was nominated for the Penn Hemingway Award. In its first month of publication, the novel rose to No. He hitches rides out West, where, after a drinking and fighting binge in San Francisco, he trades jail for a stint as an Army MP - which locks him down at a desolate military compound in upstate New York. Maynards novel, CRUM, was the first original fiction published by Washington Square Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. In his new novel, The Scummers - the final installment of the Crum trilogy - Jesse still has the urge to wander. Crum is bad-boy literature with gross-out scatological details and adolescent sexual obsessions. The sequel, Screaming With the Cannibals, which came out five years later, got his protagonist Jesse Stone out of West Virginia, across the Tug River into Kentucky. It was even banned for several years in a state-run store. Lee Maynard's 1988 semi-autobiographical novel Crum is set in the small, poor West Virginia town where he grew up.

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