Hanging Out with the Dream King

Adam Stephanides · 11 Feb 2005, 17:10 · from 2005-February.txt.gz

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From: adamsteph at earthlink.net (Adam Stephanides)
Date: Fri Feb 11 17:10:38 2005
Subject: (urth) Hanging Out with the Dream King
Message-ID: <BE32B4B9.4A6B3%adamsteph at earthlink.net>

A book that just came out, _Hanging Out with the Dream King: Conversations
with Neil Gaiman and His Collaborators_ by Joseph McCabe (pub. by
Fantagraphics Books) has a six-page interview with Gene Wolfe (and a
photo!). The interview doesn't confine itself to Gaiman or his collaboration
with Wolfe (_A Walking Tour of the Shambles_, iirc), but discusses Wolfe's
own writing. The most interesting thing Wolfe said, to me, was "It seems to
me that it is wrong to write propaganda that is not clearly propaganda."
This in response to a question on Wolfe's use of religious themes, iirc.

--Adam

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