(urth) This Week in Google Alerts: R.A. Lafferty

[Daniel Petersen]

Hey folks, I too saw this in Lafferty google alerts and was very excited as
I write a Lafferty blog in addition to my Wolfe blog.  I interacted
extensively with his article here:

http://antsofgodarequeerfish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/would-that-we-all-could-employ-our-own.html


Suffice it to say, Lafferty himself spoke about his heavy drinking and it's
no surprise at all to fans.  Not sure why he made a big deal of it.  But a
great article regardless.  Glad to know there are other Wolfe fans who dig
the Laff.  Oh, and you may be interested to know, if you haven't read it
already, that Wolfe called Laff a literal 'genius' and said he was maybe
the most original writer in history of literature:

http://antsofgodarequeerfish.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/its-great-to-be-young-and-in-danger.html


And Tim Powers, two steps below Laff literarily, and one below Wolfe, I
think is very worth checking out for another highly original Catholic
writer of wonderfully bizarre fiction.

-DOJP

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Antonin Scriabin
<kierkegaurdian at gmail.com>wrote:

> Not to go too off topic, but I was wondering what your opinion of *
> Apocalypses* was.  It is the last Lafferty I own that I have to read.  It
> is two distinct novellas, correct?
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>> Do you really have all those short stories?  All the collected volumes
>> are exorbitantly expensive except for the most common one, 900 Grandmothers.
>>
>> I have always wrestled with the decision to purchase them or not - it's
>> never a tough decision with Wolfe but I am not quite as devoted to
>> Lafferty, though someday I really want to read the bulk of his work.  I've
>> read Past Master, Fourth Mansions, Apocalypses, The Devil is Dead, Reefs of
>> Earth, and 900 Grandmothers and very little else except the odd story I
>> happened to have in my magazine collection.
>>
>> --- On Mon, 4/16/12, Dave Lebling <dlebling at hyraxes.com> wrote:
>>
>> > From: Dave Lebling <dlebling at hyraxes.com>
>> > Subject: Re: (urth) This Week in Google Alerts: R.A. Lafferty
>> > To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
>> > Date: Monday, April 16, 2012, 3:19 PM
>> > Had I known about this, I probably
>> > could have done as well as the
>> > winner. Lafferty has been one of my favorite authors since
>> > the dawn of time.
>> >
>> > Lafferty's alcoholism was no secret even back in the early
>> > days, by the way.
>> >
>> > Dave Lebling
>> >
>> > On 4/15/2012 9:33 PM, Gwern Branwen wrote:
>> > > http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=18066
>> > >
>> > >
>> http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Secret_Crocodiles_and_Strange_Doings__or_Sometimes
>> > >
>> > > I hadn't read about his alcoholism before, although
>> > given all the
>> > > drinking in his stories, it doesn't surprise me.
>> > >
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