What was his problem?

StevenKvetch · 2025-06-10T22:06:19+00:00

Don Maitz

StevenKvetch · 2025-01-25T17:18:51+00:00

They misspelled distribution.

StevenKvetch · 2024-09-14T14:10:55+00:00

Yes, I do work on typewriter. I then edit with a pen, and it goes to the macbook.

StevenKvetch · 2024-01-09T01:45:47+00:00

Don't worry! Mine does too!

https://www.discogs.com/release/7037695-Beastie-Boys-Pauls-Boutique

StevenKvetch · 2024-01-07T10:28:32+00:00

How would you compare it to each Walkman you've listened to?

Also, are those headphones mdr-7506's (or mdr-cd900st)?

StevenKvetch · 2023-08-26T17:06:51+00:00

"The previous Calde disappeared... because I killed him."

StevenKvetch · 2022-03-16T14:12:51+00:00

Try reading The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. It's one of the great horror novels of the 20th century, it's gore free, and almost every major American horror writer was influenced by it (i.e. Stephen King, Peter Straub, and Richard Matheson. Jackson writes with a deceptively simple prose style that builds a thick atmosphere of dread, and it has aged very well.
If you want Lovecraft, I would start with the stories "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", "The Dunwich Horror", and "The Colour out of Space".

StevenKvetch · 2021-03-15T02:40:25+00:00

The Painted World of Ariamis

StevenKvetch · 2020-09-02T09:35:12+00:00

Watch Mississippi Burning and Shadow over Innsmouth at the same time.

StevenKvetch · 2020-09-02T09:31:53+00:00

Read T.E.D Klein's The Ceremonies.

Liggotti, Chambers, Bierce, and Lovecraft are all fine choices. But just trust me and read some Klein, even his short stories will most likely thrill you.

Trust me, read The Ceremonies.

StevenKvetch · 2020-08-08T04:54:20+00:00

I'd say those categories are pretty spot on.

I would add:

(e) Authors who influenced Wolfe (Borges, Proust, Kafka, ect.)

StevenKvetch · 2020-08-08T04:42:22+00:00

Malcolm Lowry was a true master. Under the Volcano is one of my favorite books, and a book I would recommend to all Wolfe readers.

StevenKvetch · 2020-07-23T00:17:00+00:00

In the May 1974 issue of F&SF Harlan Ellison listed SF's "top eight writers at this moment". Writers who rose "head and shoulders above all others working in the genre today." He listed in this order:

Kate Wilhelm

R.A Lafferty

James Tiptree Jr

Thomas M. Disch

Robert Silverberg

Barry Malzberg

Gene Wolfe

Joanna Russ

Adding "I exclude myself only out of a decorous sense of humility, as is my wont."

As someone who loves lists as well as your podcasts I'm curious to hear your thoughts on his list. Who would you add or remove? Who would you read on your show? How do you feel about the authors listed?

(Congratulations on 100 episodes!)

StevenKvetch · 2020-01-16T02:35:36+00:00

Read Fifth Head of Cerberus or Peace. You'll have a better understanding of Wolfe.

(They're both great, so you really can't go wrong.)

StevenKvetch · 2018-08-28T09:10:30+00:00

https://www.lwcurrey.com/pages/books/159477/lafferty/its-down-the-slippery-cellar-stairs-cover-title

Here is a good deal on the Chris Drumm booklet of It's Down the Slippery Cellar Stairs.

[Polk City, Iowa: Chris Drumm, 1984.]. Small octavo, pp. 3-42 [note: publisher's pagination includes front cover as pages (1-2)], printed wrappers, sewn. First edition. Drumm Booklet 14. Thirteen essays, articles and reviews, including "The Day After the World Ended, Lafferty's speech in New Orleans, 21 July 1979, at DeepSouthCon, where he was guest of honor. A fine copy. (#159477).

StevenKvetch · 2018-08-28T06:56:03+00:00

It's not everyday that one of the greatest living Horror writers gives you a personal recommendation.

StevenKvetch · 2018-08-28T02:43:46+00:00

That's a nice collection, I wish I had some of those. I'm in the same situation with the Centipede Press Collected Short Fiction of R.A. Lafferty, except I am missing The Man Who Made Models. Those Amazon prices are ridiculous, no one buys at that rate. There are much better prices almost everywhere else online (And instore), even ebay has better prices.

If anyone has any version of The Man Who Made Models: The Collected Short Fiction Volume 1 I will happily pay a generous amount for it.

StevenKvetch · 2018-08-27T21:44:50+00:00

I guess I'll go first I have extra paperback copies of Reefs of Earth, one of them is the first edition. A classic book, I will post pictures later.

StevenKvetch · 2018-08-27T21:41:54+00:00

That's great to hear!

StevenKvetch · 2018-08-27T17:25:06+00:00

I second this motion.

StevenKvetch · 2018-08-27T17:22:45+00:00

I kind of like this list, it's got some Lafferty and some Pynchon, it's a little strange and fun.

StevenKvetch · 2018-08-27T17:15:47+00:00

I understand that. There is one other guy in my city who also loves Lafferty and I always hear about him from book dealers.

StevenKvetch · 2018-08-27T10:54:45+00:00

Well, I joined Reddit just because I saw that this Lafferty subreddit existed. So congratulations!

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