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

[Dave Lebling]

I have most of the original magazines still. I might be exaggerating a 
bit when I say I could beat the 220 or whatever, but I have a lot of 
Lafferty. Until Fifth Head of Cerberus, I would say I esteemed him more 
highly than Wolfe. (Fool that I am, I didn't read Peace until much later.)

I have all of the "major" SF mags going back to about 1963 or so.

Dave Lebling

On 4/16/2012 6:41 PM, Marc Aramini 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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