John Hawkes

[Charles Albert]

Good to see that I am not alone in my reaction to John Hawkes....The English
Dept. at Camp Bruno was a pretty dreary place in the late 70s (wasn't until
the Pale Fire experience that I came to appreciate how much fun Alexander
Pope could be), hence my escape into the Slavic Studies group.

I think Harper was assigned as my advisor my freshman year - and I never
spoke to him again after our first meeting. "Less horrible" is entirely
appropriate.

love,
cfa


On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Elaine Bell <elainemmbell at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> (but wicked good to be back in Massachusetts)
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