"Despite praise in his lifetime from Langston Hughes, Susan Sontag, Edward Albee, Gore Vidal, as well as " in later years " John Waters and Jonathan Franzen, Purdy … cast out by the US literary establishment," which wasn't ready for either his experimental style or his outré subject matter. (Nelson Algren called one of Purdy's […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:04PM on March 13, 2019