(urth) King

[Piotr Szczęsny]

I think he means Isaac Singer, author of "Shadows on the hudson" and "The
Magician of Lublin". Also I checked - Singer was still alive in 1983.


2014-05-29 13:45 GMT+02:00 Daniel Otto Jack Petersen <
danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com>:

> I just saw him mention King for the first time the other day (at least I
> think he meant* Stephen* King).  It's in *Castle of Days*, a very clever
> little self-interview piece called 'Lone Wolfe' (from 1983 it says).
>  Here's the relevant excerpt:
>
> *Q: You have the reputation of being one of the nicest guys in the field.
>  We both know you're a hyena on its hind legs.  How have you fooled
> everyone?*
> *A: By keeping my mouth shut when I read garbage.*
> *Q: Have you found that difficult?*
> *A: No.  I'm constantly running into people who've read bad books clean to
> the end.  I admire them more than I can say, but I can't do that - when I
> get shit in my eyes I close them fast and cry.*
> *Q: You also throw the book at the wall and scare the dog.*
> *A: Yeah.  And then when somebody asks me how I liked the book, I say I
> haven't read it, because it's really not fair for me to judge without
> finishing the book.  Maybe the last nine-tenths is marvelous.  But I doubt
> it.*
> *Q: Leaving aside the people you've already named [earlier he'd said he'd
> read a lot of Lafferty, Le Guin, Knight, Wilhelm, and Budrys and also
> thought Little, Big was 'an education in modern fantasy all by itself'],
> who doesn't make you toss the book at the wall?*
> *A: Lord Dunsany, Chesterton--*
> *Q: I know, Dickens.  Let's keep the dead out of this.*
> *A: Ellison, Leiber, King, Singer, lots of good people.*
>
> Then 'they' change the subject.  I assume he's talking about SK.  If so,
> that's a fairly ringing endorsement from Wolfe - SK's fiction is not
> garbage and thus doesn't merit being thrown against the wall!
>
> Does anyone know who Singer could be?
>
> -DOJP
>
>
> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Piotr Szczęsny <neternalz at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I only know one Stephen King in Wolfe works. In "From the desk of Gilmer
>> C. Merton" where he is clearly mentioned  as horror story writer - Steven
>> E. Presley.
>>
>>
>> 2014-05-29 12:02 GMT+02:00 António Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Gene Wolfe mentions King a number of times. Some of those are clearly
>>> Stephen King. SK is usually taken as an entertainer rather than a Writer
>>> (not by me, since my knowledge on the matter is nil). Has Wolfe's
>>> endorsement been analyzed? (F.i., people will discuss his appreciation of
>>> Lafferty.)
>>>
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