Watch Harry Crews - Survival is Triumph Enough

Harry Crews, the prolific writer and author of Southern "gothic" classics "A Feast of Snakes" and "The Gospel Singer" reveals a lifetime of extraordinary experiences and their effect on his personal and creative life. Interviewed in 2006 and 2007 by artist and filmmaker, Tyler Turkle, Crews recounts growing up in Bacon County, Georgia, during the Great Depression. He describes, in vivid detail, his near fatal childhood coupled with stark tales of his adult alcoholism, drug abuse and the tragic, accidental drowning of his first born son. In a candid, relentless delivery Crews weaves a web of pain and suffering and the brutal consequences of his own actions. Throughout, Crews remains tough as nails and sums up his life by quoting Mark Twain: " I have reached the age of seventy by strictly following a regimen that would have killed anybody else." The soundtrack includes Sugar Hill recording artist, Terry Allen, performing Elvin Bigger's 1957 classic "Give Me The Flowers"