John Hawkes

Elaine Bell elainemmbell at gmail.com
Thu Dec 10 12:45:21 CST 2009


I studied under John Hawkes at Brown.  He was a truly despicable human
being.  Moved on to work with Michael Harper, who was less horrible.  Verlin
Cassill was the only truly decent one there...oddly considering graduate
students to be the equivalent of human beings!

On 12/10/09, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> interesting that Pynchon thought highly of The Lime Twig. Hawkes'
> first book The Cannibal is alot what one would call Pynchonesque. a
> pretty weird story about Germany at the end of WW2
>
> rich
>



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