RIP Harvey Pekar

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Mon Jul 12 21:53:17 CDT 2010


Yes.  Harvey was very aware of his limitations which he sold as his
"salt."  P & he would be a hard match, at least from Harvey's
perspective.  But that's cool.

On Monday, July 12, 2010, Peter Petto <ppetto at ppetto.com> wrote:
> Harvey had feet of clay too, and I think he realized that, alongside his "speak truth to power" shtick.
>
> I seem to recall another M&D review he penned, in which he bragged about not having read very much of the book.
>
> I've always imagined a chat with Harvey and his reaction to "Wow, I'm surprised. Tom has spoken so highly of you."
>
>    Peter++



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