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Article: Home of "the glorious bird". (Books).(Tennessee Williams and the South)(Book Review)
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- The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
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Tennessee Williams and the South
by Kenneth Holditch and Richard Freeman Leavitt
University Press of Mississippi
111 pages, $30.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS and the South is what I call a yum-yum book--a collection of superb photo graphs, including one of the fabled Pancho Rodriguez, the man Williams was living with when he wrote A Streetcar Named Desire, the man who, someone once told me, when asked by some women who went into a bar looking for him if he had known Williams, replied: "Knew him? I fucked him in the ass!" These photographs have been selected by Richard Freeman Leavitt to accompany a text written by Kenneth Holditch. It is printed ...