How list works and questions to mailers

Tim Walters · 12 May 2008, 17:42 · from 2008-May.txt.gz

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From: walters at doubtfulpalace.com (Tim Walters)
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 10:42:43 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) How list works and questions to mailers
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Moorcock is wildly uneven, but his best books (MOTHER LONDON and GLORIANA)
are very much worth reading. I would also add BETWEEN THE WARS (the
four-volume novel beginning with BYZANTIUM ENDURES), with the caveat that
it's quite long, takes the unreliable/unlikeable narrator technique about
as far as it can go, and won't appeal to everyone.

I also recommend Paul Park, Kelly Link, and Robert Aickman, who share many
of Wolfe's best qualities, and John Crowley, who isn't much like Wolfe but
is equally good.

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Tim Walters | http://doubtfulpalace.com

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