This Week in Google Alerts: R.A. Lafferty

Marc Aramini · 16 Apr 2012, 02:31 · from 2012-April.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at yahoo.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:31:06 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) This Week in Google Alerts: R.A. Lafferty
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I would love for there to be a more comprehensive outlet for his short fiction - I can't imagine what it cost that guy to track down all of it.
I was aware of his drinking.  It's a shame how difficult it is to find his stuff, especially since it is usually the shorter stuff that feels "amazing" when you read it.

I love these intelligent, highly stylized, eccentrically conservative Catholic SF/Fantasy writers ... (are there only 2!!!!?)

--- On Sun, 4/15/12, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com>
> Subject: (urth) This Week in Google Alerts: R.A. Lafferty
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> Date: Sunday, April 15, 2012, 6:33 PM
> http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=18066
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> 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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