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'''Tito Perdue''' (born 1938) is an American novelist. His works include his 1991 debut novel ''[[Lee (novel)|Lee]]''. |
'''Tito Perdue''' (born 1938) is an American novelist. His works include his 1991 debut novel ''[[Lee (novel)|Lee]]''. |
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==Personal life== |
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Perdue was born '''Albert Perdue''' to American parents in [[Chile]], where his father worked as an electrical engineer.{{efn|In an interview on [https://counter-currents.com/2017/11/counter-currents-radio-weekly-interview-with-tito-perdue/ ''Counter-Currents Radio'', ep. 205 (20 November 2017)], 00:56-01:22, Perdue explains: "I was named, after my father, 'Albert.' But in Chile, the word ''tito'' means 'little.' It can also can mean 'junior.' So I was called 'Albertito,' you know, 'Albert, Jr.,' 'little Albert.' And after a while they dropped the 'Albert' and people began calling me 'Tito.' And it sounds so much more literary, you know, than merely 'Albert': so I decided to use that for my pen-name."}} The family returned to the United States in 1941, upon the country's [[Military history of the United States during World War II|entering the War]]. Perdue was brought up in [[Anniston, Alabama|Anniston, Alabama]].<ref name="knipfel">{{Cite web|last=Knipfel|first=Jim|authorlink=Jim Knipfel|date=2001-06-12|url=http://www.nypress.com/tito-perdue-americas-lost-literary-genius/|title=Tito Perdue: America's Lost Literary Genius|work=[[New York Press]]|accessdate=2018-06-23}}</ref><ref name="aa">"About the Author," ''Reuben'' (Brent, AL: Standard American, 2022).</ref> He graduated from [[Indian Springs School]] in 1956.<ref name="aa" /> He attended [[Antioch College]] for a year before he was expelled for cohabiting with a fellow student, Judy Clark.<ref name="aa" /> They married in 1957.<ref name="aa" /><ref name="wwaw">''[https://archive.org/details/whoswhoofamerica0000marq/page/1256/mode/1up?q=%22tito+perdue%22&view=theater Who's Who of American Women]'' (New Providence, NJ: [[Marquis Who's Who]], 2006), p. 1256.</ref> Perdue received a BA in English Literature from the [[University of Texas at Austin|University of Texas]], and an MA in Modern European History and an [[Master of Library and Information Science|MLS]] from [[Indiana University]].<ref>Biography, ''The New Austerities'' (Atlanta, GA: Peachtree, 1994).</ref> He worked as a university library administrator until 1982, when he retired to his mother's family's Alabama property to write full-time.<ref>Biography, ''The Sweet-Scented Manuscript'' (Fort Worth, TX: Baskerville, 2004).</ref><ref name ="noble">[[Don Noble]], [https://www.apr.org/arts-life/2008-12-22/fields-of-asphodel-a-novel-by-tito-perdue "Fields of Asphodel (A Novel), by Tito Perdue,"] [[Alabama Public Radio|apr.org]] (22 December 2008). Retrieved 9 September 2024.</ref> He first wrote ''The Sweet-Scented Manuscript''; though this would be his fourth novel to be published.<ref name="kurtagic">[[Alex Kurtagić]], [https://web.archive.org/web/20111108033005/https:/www.alternativeright.com/main/blogs/untimely-observations/a-reactionary-snob/ "A Reactionary Snob,"] ''Alternative Right'' (3 November 2011). Retrieved 9 September 2024.</ref> |
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Perdue was born in Chile to American parents. He was brought up in [[Anniston, Alabama|Anniston]], Alabama. He married his wife Judy when he was 18. He has degrees in English literature, European history and library science. He has worked as a bookkeeper, a library administrator and an apprentice insurance underwriter throughout the Midwest and Northeast, before he moved back to the South in 1982 to pursue a career as a full-time writer.<ref name="knipfel">{{Cite web|last=Knipfel|first=Jim|authorlink=Jim Knipfel|date=2001-06-12|url=http://www.nypress.com/tito-perdue-americas-lost-literary-genius/|title=Tito Perdue: America's Lost Literary Genius|work=[[New York Press]]|accessdate=2018-06-23}}</ref> |
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Judy Perdue worked as a librarian and professor of biology at [[Georgia Highlands College|Floyd College]] and elsewhere.<ref name="wwaw" /><ref name="wwss">''[https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinsouthso0000unse_l0m5/page/627/mode/1up?q=%22tito+perdue%22&view=theater Who's Who in the South and Southwest]'' (New Providence, NJ: [[Marquis Who's Who]], 1993), p. 627.</ref> She is [[Royal Entomological Society|Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society (London)]] and member of other learned associations.<ref name="wwaw" /><ref name="wwss" /> Her father, Christopher Clark, wrote novels of working class life, including ''The Unleashed Will'' (1947) and ''Good Is for Angels'' (1950).<ref>''[https://archive.org/details/catalogofcopyrig18libr/page/n147/mode/2up?view=theater Catalog of Copyright Entries: Renewals]'' (Washington, DC: [[Library of Congress]], 1980), p. 133.</ref><ref>Robert Reginald, ''[https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Cumulative_Paperback_Index_1939_1959/rpjkMM7tdDYC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Good+is+for+angels%22&pg=PA274&printsec=frontcover Cumulative Paperback Index, 1939-1959: A Comprehensive Bibliographic Guide]'' (San Bernadino, Calif.: [[Borgo Press]]), pp. 274, 351.</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1947/05/04/archives/a-crime-of-passion-the-unleashed-will-by-christopher-clark-280-pp.html ''New York Times'', May 4, 1947, Section BR, Page 14.]</ref><ref>James A. Kaser, ''[https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Chicago_of_Fiction/_oWSHXCqXMQC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Good+is+for+angels%22&pg=PA72&printsec=frontcover The Chicago of Fiction: A Resource Guide]'' (Plymouth: Scarecrow Press, 2011), p. 72, ''f.''</ref> |
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The Perdues have one daughter.<ref name="wwaw" /><ref name="wwss" /> They live in [[Centreville, Alabama|Centreville]] and [[Wetumpka, Alabama]].<ref name="node">Don Noble, [https://www.apr.org/arts-life/2012-08-15/the-node "The Node,"] apr.org (15 August 2012). Retrieved 9 September 2024.</ref> |
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==Work== |
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Many of Perdue's novels chronicle the life of Leland "Lee" Pefley,<ref name="gsym" /> an ''[[alter ego]]'' who, Perdue explains, "actually carries out actions that his creator would often wish to perform if he but had the courage."<ref>[[Derek Turner (journalist)|Derek Turner]], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090530164952/https:/www.quarterly-review.org/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/perdue.pdf "A Visionary Reactionary,"] ''[[Quarterly Review|The Quarterly Review]]'' (spring 2008), p. 4. Retrieved 9 September 2024.</ref> In order, these are ''The Smut Book'' (Pefley aged 11), ''Morning Crafts'' (aged 13), ''The Sweet-Scented Manuscript'' (at college), ''The New Austerities'' (aged 42), ''Journey to a Location'' and ''Though We Be Dead, Yet Our Day Shall Come'' (both aged 70), ''Materials for All Future Historians'' (aged 71), ''[[Lee (novel)|Lee]]'' (aged 72) and ''Fields of Asphodel'' (in the afterlife).<ref name="kurtagic" /><ref>Adam J. Young, [https://archive.org/details/heritage_and_destiny_87/page/n15/mode/2up?view=theater "Book Review: ''Though We Be Dead Our Day Will Come'' [''sic''<nowiki>] - by Tito Perdue,"</nowiki>] ''Heritage and Destiny'', no. 87 (November - December 2018), p. 17.</ref> An aged Pefley also features prominently in the first half of ''Reuben''.<ref name="tuggle">Mike C. Tuggle, [https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/starry-eyed-varlet/ "Starry-Eyed Varlet,"] abbevilleinstitute.org (9 May 2014). Retrieved 9 September 2024.</ref> The lives of Lee's forebears are chronicled in ''Opportunities in Alabama Agriculture'' and the four-volume ''William’s House'', for which Perdue drew on records of his own family history.<ref name="knipfel" /> |
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Perdue's ''Sweet-Scented Manuscript'' was completed within a year of his "retirement," but was not published until 2004 when it was issued by Baskerville Press. The novel is a love story that attempts to convey the impressions and yearnings of an 18-year-old boy, Leland Pefley, in his first exploration of the world; the novel is largely autobiographical. Perdue's next novel and his first published, ''[[Lee (novel)|Lee]]'', was about the same Leland Pefley, now an old man, bitter, hostile, angry at a world that no longer recognized the values and culture of the 1950s. He spewed venom at those who, surrounded by beauty, culture and literature, didn't bother to avail themselves of it. Other works include ''The Node'', ''Fields of Asphodel'' and ''The New Austerities'', which depicts Lee Pefley's flight from New York City back to his ancestral home in Alabama. That same year, Baskerville Press published Perdue's ''Opportunities in Alabama Agriculture'', a strange fictional account of an Alabama man, [[school teacher]], [[Rural Letter Carrier|rural route mail carrier]], and farmer.<ref name="knipfel" /> |
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Perdue's novels are [[Picaresque novel|picaresques]], built of "disjointed episodes."<ref name="node" /><ref name="whitehouse">''[[The New York Times|New York Times]]'', 24 November 1991.</ref> He explains: "I don't believe that prose should be translucent. I don't believe that plot is all that matters. I believe that language matters greatly. ... My books have very little plot. I don't even like plot."<ref name="knipfel" /> Perdue often incorporates elements of [[fantasy]] (like active volcanoes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Alabama)<ref>[https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781880909249 ''Publishers Weekly'' (3 October 1994).]</ref> or, in later novels, [[science fiction]] (like the "escrubilator," an indescribable "omni-competent" machine).<ref>[[Greg Johnson (white nationalist)|Greg Johnson]], [https://counter-currents.com/2013/08/turning-the-world-around-tito-perdues-the-node/ "Turning the World Around: Tito Perdue’s ''The Node,''"] ''Counter-Currents'' (16 August 2013). Retrieved 9 September 2014.</ref> |
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In the pages of ''[[Kirkus Reviews]]'' it was said Perdue "writes convincingly and iconoclastically… a marvelous black comedy that is sometimes as astringent as John Yount's ''Toots in Solitude''…"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/tito-perdue/lee/|title=''Lee'' by Tito Perdue|work=[[Kirkus Reviews]]|date=June 15, 1991|accessdate=October 18, 2016}}</ref> |
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Perdue's novels have encountered "critical but not much popular success."<ref name="noble" /> [[Jim Knipfel]] and [[Gary Heidt]] have named Perdue among their favourite writers.<ref name="knipfel" /><ref>[https://www.barbarademarcobarrett.com/2008/08/qa-with-literary-agent-gary-heidt/ Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, "Q&A with Literary Agent Gary Heidt," barbarademarcobarrett.com (7 August 2008).] Retrieved 9 September 2014.</ref> For Knipfel, Perdue is "without question, one of the most important contemporary Southern writers we have" and "among the most important American writers of the early 21st century."<ref name="gsym">Jim Knipfel, [https://web.archive.org/web/20040627155933/https:/www.nypress.com/16/32/news&columns/eslackjaw.cfm "Go South, Young Man,"] ''[[New York Press]]'', vol. 16, no. 32 (2003). Retrieved 9 September 2024.</ref> |
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Critics have commented on Perdue's "idiosyncratic" prose.<ref name="noble" /> Anne Whitehouse of the ''[[The New York Times|New York Times]]'' finds ''Lee'' "vitriolic and hallucinatory, yet surprisingly lucid, producing a portrait both exceedingly strange and troubling."<ref name="whitehouse" /> In the ''[[New York Press]]'', Knipfel praises Perdue's "fluid, consciously musical prose,"<ref name="gsym" /> "full of rage but under complete control," noting that it becomes "progressively textured and more savage" with time.<ref name="knipfel" /> However, ''[[Publishers Weekly|Publisher’s Weekly]]'' finds that ''Lee'' "sinks under the weight of its own pretensions";<ref>[https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-941423-39-7 ''Publishers Weekly'', 29 July 1991.] Retrieved 9 September 2024.</ref> and Dick Roraback of the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' complains of Perdue's eccentric (mis)usages in ''The New Austerities''.<ref>Dick Roraback, [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-01-15-bk-20047-story.html "Fiction,"] [[Los Angeles Times|''Los Angeles Times'']], 15 January 1995. Retrieved 9 September 2024.</ref> |
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[[Thomas Fleming (political writer)|Thomas Fleming]] calls the Pefley sequence "some of the best satire on contemporary America";<ref>Thomas Fleming, "A Lost Art," ''Chronicles'' (December 1996), p. 35.</ref> and ''[[Kirkus Reviews]]'' notes the "marvelous black comedy" in ''Lee''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/tito-perdue/lee/|title=''Lee'' by Tito Perdue|work=[[Kirkus Reviews]]|date=June 15, 1991|accessdate=October 18, 2016}}</ref> [[Antoine Wilson]] of the ''Los Angeles Times'' finds "tone-deaf caricature" in some satirical passages of ''Fields of Asphodel'', but praises its "utterly charming and brilliantly comic" ''denouement''.<ref>[[Antoine Wilson]], [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-15-bk-wilson15-story.html "The Misanthrope,"] ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' (15 July 2007). Retrieved 9 September 2024.</ref> |
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⚫ | ''[[Lee (novel)|Lee]]'' is discussed in [[Bill Kauffman|Bill Kauffman's]] analysis of [[Secession in the United States|secessionist]] literary fiction in ''Bye Bye, Miss American Empire'' (2010).<ref>[[Bill Kauffman|Kauffman, Bill]]. [[iarchive:isbn_9781933392806/page/188/mode/1up|''Bye Bye, Miss American Empire: Neighborhood Patriots, Backcountry Rebels, and Their Underdog Crusades to Redraw America's Political Map'' (White River Junction, Vt.: Chelsea Green), p. 188.]]</ref> |
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On March 7, 2015, Perdue received the first [[H._P._Lovecraft#Legacy|H. P. Lovecraft Prize for Literature]].<ref>Greg Johnson, [https://counter-currents.com/2015/11/the-counter-currents-h-p-lovecraft-prize-for-literature/ "The ''Counter-Currents'' H. P. Lovecraft Prize for Literature,"] ''Counter-Currents'' (12 November 2015). Retrieved 9 September 2024.</ref> The trophy was a porcelain bust of Lovecraft by [[Charles Krafft]].<ref>Jillian Steinhauer, [https://hyperallergic.com/254089/white-nationalist-artist-charles-krafft-designs-award-for-right-wing-publisher/ "White Nationalist Artist Charles Krafft Designs Award for Right-Wing Publisher,"] ''[[Hyperallergic]]'' (16 November 2015). Retrieved 9 September 2015.</ref> |
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*[https://counter-currents.com/2015/03/good-things-in-tiny-places/ "Good Things in Tiny Places," ''Counter-Currents'' (12 March 2015).] |
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*[https://counter-currents.com/2013/09/alex-kurtagics-mister-2/ "Alex Kurtagić's ''Mister''," ''Counter-Currents'' (16 September 2013).] |
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*[https://counter-currents.com/2014/03/decadence/ "Decadence," ''Counter-Currents'' (19 March 2014).] |
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Latest revision as of 13:51, 17 November 2024
Tito Perdue | |
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Born | 1938 (age 85–86) Sewell, Chile |
Occupation | Novelist |
Nationality | American |
Genre | Novel, satire |
Subject | Degeneration, beauty |
Website | |
titoperdue |
Tito Perdue (born 1938) is an American novelist. His works include his 1991 debut novel Lee.
Personal life
[edit]Perdue was born Albert Perdue to American parents in Chile, where his father worked as an electrical engineer.[a] The family returned to the United States in 1941, upon the country's entering the War. Perdue was brought up in Anniston, Alabama.[1][2] He graduated from Indian Springs School in 1956.[2] He attended Antioch College for a year before he was expelled for cohabiting with a fellow student, Judy Clark.[2] They married in 1957.[2][3] Perdue received a BA in English Literature from the University of Texas, and an MA in Modern European History and an MLS from Indiana University.[4] He worked as a university library administrator until 1982, when he retired to his mother's family's Alabama property to write full-time.[5][6] He first wrote The Sweet-Scented Manuscript; though this would be his fourth novel to be published.[7]
Judy Perdue worked as a librarian and professor of biology at Floyd College and elsewhere.[3][8] She is Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society (London) and member of other learned associations.[3][8] Her father, Christopher Clark, wrote novels of working class life, including The Unleashed Will (1947) and Good Is for Angels (1950).[9][10][11][12]
The Perdues have one daughter.[3][8] They live in Centreville and Wetumpka, Alabama.[13]
Work
[edit]Many of Perdue's novels chronicle the life of Leland "Lee" Pefley,[14] an alter ego who, Perdue explains, "actually carries out actions that his creator would often wish to perform if he but had the courage."[15] In order, these are The Smut Book (Pefley aged 11), Morning Crafts (aged 13), The Sweet-Scented Manuscript (at college), The New Austerities (aged 42), Journey to a Location and Though We Be Dead, Yet Our Day Shall Come (both aged 70), Materials for All Future Historians (aged 71), Lee (aged 72) and Fields of Asphodel (in the afterlife).[7][16] An aged Pefley also features prominently in the first half of Reuben.[17] The lives of Lee's forebears are chronicled in Opportunities in Alabama Agriculture and the four-volume William’s House, for which Perdue drew on records of his own family history.[1]
Perdue's novels are picaresques, built of "disjointed episodes."[13][18] He explains: "I don't believe that prose should be translucent. I don't believe that plot is all that matters. I believe that language matters greatly. ... My books have very little plot. I don't even like plot."[1] Perdue often incorporates elements of fantasy (like active volcanoes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Alabama)[19] or, in later novels, science fiction (like the "escrubilator," an indescribable "omni-competent" machine).[20]
Reception
[edit]Critical reception
[edit]Perdue's novels have encountered "critical but not much popular success."[6] Jim Knipfel and Gary Heidt have named Perdue among their favourite writers.[1][21] For Knipfel, Perdue is "without question, one of the most important contemporary Southern writers we have" and "among the most important American writers of the early 21st century."[14]
Critics have commented on Perdue's "idiosyncratic" prose.[6] Anne Whitehouse of the New York Times finds Lee "vitriolic and hallucinatory, yet surprisingly lucid, producing a portrait both exceedingly strange and troubling."[18] In the New York Press, Knipfel praises Perdue's "fluid, consciously musical prose,"[14] "full of rage but under complete control," noting that it becomes "progressively textured and more savage" with time.[1] However, Publisher’s Weekly finds that Lee "sinks under the weight of its own pretensions";[22] and Dick Roraback of the Los Angeles Times complains of Perdue's eccentric (mis)usages in The New Austerities.[23]
Thomas Fleming calls the Pefley sequence "some of the best satire on contemporary America";[24] and Kirkus Reviews notes the "marvelous black comedy" in Lee.[25] Antoine Wilson of the Los Angeles Times finds "tone-deaf caricature" in some satirical passages of Fields of Asphodel, but praises its "utterly charming and brilliantly comic" denouement.[26]
Scholarly reception
[edit]Lee is discussed in Bill Kauffman's analysis of secessionist literary fiction in Bye Bye, Miss American Empire (2010).[27]
Recognition
[edit]On March 7, 2015, Perdue received the first H. P. Lovecraft Prize for Literature.[28] The trophy was a porcelain bust of Lovecraft by Charles Krafft.[29]
Political opinions
[edit]Perdue is a member of the League of the South.[1]
Publications
[edit]Novels
[edit]- Lee, Four Walls Eight Windows, 1991 (ISBN 9780941423397); 2nd ed., Overlook Press, 2007 (ISBN 978-1-58567-872-3); 3rd ed., Arktos, 2019 (ISBN 9781912975280).
- The New Austerities, Peachtree Press, 1994 (ISBN 978-1-56145-086-2); 2nd ed., Standard American, 2023 (ISBN 9781642640359).
- Opportunities in Alabama Agriculture, Baskerville Press, 1994 (ISBN 978-1-880909-24-9); 2nd ed., Standard American, 2023 (ISBN 9781642640311).
- The Sweet-Scented Manuscript, Baskerville Press, 2004 (ISBN 978-1-880909-68-3); 2nd ed., Arktos, 2019 (ISBN 9781912975389).
- Fields of Asphodel, Overlook Press, 2007 (ISBN 978-1-58567-871-6); 2nd ed., Standard American, 2023 (ISBN 9781642640212).
- The Node, Nine-Banded Books, 2011 (ISBN 978-1-61658-351-4).
- Morning Crafts, Arktos, 2013 (ISBN 978-1-907166-57-0).
- Reuben, Washington Summit, 2014 (ISBN 9781593680237); 2nd ed., Standard American, 2022 (ISBN 9781642641950).
- The Builder: William's House I, Arktos, 2015 (ISBN 9781910524343).
- The Churl: William's House II, Arktos, 2015 (ISBN 9781910524336).
- The Engineer: William's House III, Arktos, 2016 (ISBN 9781910524954).
- The Bachelor: William's House IV, Arktos, 2016 (ISBN 9781910524381).
- Cynosura, Counter-Currents, 2016 (ISBN 9781940933863).
- The Philatelist, Counter-Currents, 2017 (ISBN 9781940933986).
- Philip, Arktos, 2017 (ISBN 9781912079889).
- The Bent Pyramid, Arktos, 2018 (ISBN 9781912079858).
- Though We Be Dead, Yet Our Day Shall Come, Counter-Currents, 2018 (ISBN 9781940933894).
- The Gizmo, Counter-Currents, 2019 (ISBN 9781642641202).
- The Smut Book, Counter-Currents, 2020 (ISBN 9781642641424).
- Love Song of the Australopiths, Standard American, 2020 (ISBN 9781642641462).
- Materials for All Future Historians, Standard American, 2020 (ISBN 9781642641639).
- Journey to a Location, Arktos, 2021 (ISBN 9781914208263).
- Vade Mecum, Standard American, 2021 (ISBN 9781642641837).
Short Fiction
[edit]Nonfiction
[edit]- "Alex Kurtagić's Mister," Counter-Currents (16 September 2013).
- "Decadence," Counter-Currents (19 March 2014).
Notes
[edit]- ^ In an interview on Counter-Currents Radio, ep. 205 (20 November 2017), 00:56-01:22, Perdue explains: "I was named, after my father, 'Albert.' But in Chile, the word tito means 'little.' It can also can mean 'junior.' So I was called 'Albertito,' you know, 'Albert, Jr.,' 'little Albert.' And after a while they dropped the 'Albert' and people began calling me 'Tito.' And it sounds so much more literary, you know, than merely 'Albert': so I decided to use that for my pen-name."
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f Knipfel, Jim (June 12, 2001). "Tito Perdue: America's Lost Literary Genius". New York Press. Retrieved June 23, 2018.
- ^ a b c d "About the Author," Reuben (Brent, AL: Standard American, 2022).
- ^ a b c d Who's Who of American Women (New Providence, NJ: Marquis Who's Who, 2006), p. 1256.
- ^ Biography, The New Austerities (Atlanta, GA: Peachtree, 1994).
- ^ Biography, The Sweet-Scented Manuscript (Fort Worth, TX: Baskerville, 2004).
- ^ a b c Don Noble, "Fields of Asphodel (A Novel), by Tito Perdue," apr.org (22 December 2008). Retrieved 9 September 2024.
- ^ a b Alex Kurtagić, "A Reactionary Snob," Alternative Right (3 November 2011). Retrieved 9 September 2024.
- ^ a b c Who's Who in the South and Southwest (New Providence, NJ: Marquis Who's Who, 1993), p. 627.
- ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries: Renewals (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1980), p. 133.
- ^ Robert Reginald, Cumulative Paperback Index, 1939-1959: A Comprehensive Bibliographic Guide (San Bernadino, Calif.: Borgo Press), pp. 274, 351.
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