Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 18:04:24 -0500 Subject: [WSFA] Past Capclave GoH Nick Mamatas on HPL From: Michael Walsh <walshmichaelj at gmail.com> To: WSFA Official List <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>, WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> Nope, not what you think .... "I MAY AS WELL state my claim in as straightforward a way as possible: H. P. Lovecraft, he of the squamous and eldritch, is wrongly derided as a bad writer. Lovecraft is actually a difficult writer." "Lovecraftian fiction as experimental fiction" mjw ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 4:52 PM Subject: [WSFA] The Real Mr. Difficult, or Why Cthulhu Threatens to Destroy the Canon, Self-Interested Literary Essayists, and the Universe Itself. Finally. [LA Rev of Books] <https://www.lareviewofbooks.org/essay/real-mr-difficult-cthulhu-threatens-destroy-canon-self-interested-literary-essayists-universe-finally> or http://tinyurl.com/mk4bw85 Really long review by Nick Mamatas, with several comments, some almost as long as the review itself. Thanks to Gordon Van Gelder for the link! -- Andrew Porter