Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:40:49 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <wsfalist at keithlynch.net>,<wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Out of the gutter: Philip K. Dick enters the Canon?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

>From an interview with Jonathan Lethem:

"I'm helping preside over the utter and irreversible canonization of
one of my (formerly outsider) heroes, Philip K. Dick: I'm writing
endnotes for The Library of America, which is doing a volume of four of
his novels from the sixties, which I also helped select."
<http://marksarvas.blogs.com/elegvar/2006/11/threeminute_int.html>

The only other genre author LoA has done is HPL.

And if you're not familiar with the LoA:  http://www.loa.org/

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mjw