This Week in Google Alerts: R.A. Lafferty

Dave Lebling · 16 Apr 2012, 22:19 · from 2012-April.txt.gz

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From: dlebling at hyraxes.com (Dave Lebling)
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:19:06 -0400
Subject: (urth) This Week in Google Alerts: R.A. Lafferty
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Had I known about this, I probably could have done as well as the 
winner. Lafferty has been one of my favorite authors since the dawn of time.

Lafferty's alcoholism was no secret even back in the early days, by the way.

Dave Lebling

On 4/15/2012 9:33 PM, Gwern Branwen wrote:
> http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=18066
>
> 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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