Chesterton. Gaiman

Kevin J. Maroney · 08 Nov 1998, 18:12 · from urth-v0021.mbox · original

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From: "Kevin J. Maroney" <kmaroney at crossover.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Chesterton. Gaiman
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1998 18:12:00
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At 05:54 PM 11/7/98 -0500, alga wrote:
>Well, hmmm,  the second. I've never read a word of -Sandman-; I suppose I
>should. Though I cottoned to Gaiman right away as an interesting short sto=
ry
>writer. That "Troll Bridge" (?) keeps coming back to me at the oddest
>moments.

Well, I'm quite fond of _Sandman_. It's very easy to overpraise it, but
there's some really first-rate work in it, especially in the scattered
short stories. Wolfe is, by evidence, a reader of it, of course; he had a
story in the _Sandman_ prose collection a couple of years back. (One of his
folk music stories--does anyone have a list of all of these?)

Wombat, a.k.a. Kevin Maroney kmaroney at crossover.com
Kitchen Staff Supervisor, New York Review of Science Fiction
http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/olp/nyrsf/nyrsf.html

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