This Week in Google Alerts: R.A. Lafferty

Marc Aramini · 16 Apr 2012, 22:41 · from 2012-April.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at yahoo.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:41:36 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) This Week in Google Alerts: R.A. Lafferty
In-Reply-To: <4F8C9ADA.6060907 at hyraxes.com>
Message-ID: <1334616096.8872.YahooMailClassic at web161804.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

Do you really have all those short stories?  All the collected volumes are exorbitantly expensive except for the most common one, 900 Grandmothers.

I have always wrestled with the decision to purchase them or not - it's never a tough decision with Wolfe but I am not quite as devoted to Lafferty, though someday I really want to read the bulk of his work.  I've read Past Master, Fourth Mansions, Apocalypses, The Devil is Dead, Reefs of Earth, and 900 Grandmothers and very little else except the odd story I happened to have in my magazine collection.

--- On Mon, 4/16/12, Dave Lebling <dlebling at hyraxes.com> wrote:

> From: Dave Lebling <dlebling at hyraxes.com>
> Subject: Re: (urth) This Week in Google Alerts: R.A. Lafferty
> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Date: Monday, April 16, 2012, 3:19 PM
> 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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