On the subject of Lovecraft, to which we keep returning: My own take is that he was supremely talented at describing dread and disgust and horrifically deficient in describing anything else; his admitted and proud disinterest in people as subjects of fiction shows in his work and renders the whole remote and soulless. His racism, […]
Every child knows that certain adults are enemies of wonder. These adults are not just scornful of fantasy. They are determined predators of it. They may not actually rip a comic book or a DVD out of that child’s hands, but they will let that child know that such pursuits are garbage, and that taking […]
Two or three times in my life I have been wandering the bookstore when I just randomly came across some child, holding one of my books, and begging his mother to buy it; and the mother telling the child no, either because she wasn’t in the mood to buy something for him right now, or […]