The White Dad Interview

[T.E. Grau]

Membership in the Guild of Caucasian Fathers CONFIRMED!

[Auditor]

Thanks, I enjoyed that. Looking forward to the novella!

[T.E. Grau]

Now I need to bone up on my Aickman.

Never read the guy, but boy am I rarin' to love then reject him. Will be a super neat anecdote to tell my daughter at the throwback/kitschy soda fountain in South Pasadena.

[T.E. Grau]

Quote Originally Posted by Auditor

Thanks, I enjoyed that. Looking forward to the novella!

Thanks, Auditor.

[Auditor]

White Dad jokes aside, he is one of my favorite authors. I highly recommend the entirety of The Wine-Dark Sea, as well as the stories The Swords and The Hospice - both of which can be found in the collection Cold Hand in Mine (and plenty of others).

[T.E. Grau]

I have a few of his books (including The Wine-Dark Sea) on the backburner section of my TBR stack.

I've heard good things. Someday I'll get to him. I want to read everything. Finding the time is more problematic than a new Joshi blog.

[Mr. Veech]

"I think you’re either born a person who digs the darkness or you’re not. And I don’t necessarily mean people who play Halloween dress-up every day, favor goth fashion, live as wanna-be vampires, practice Satanism, or something similar.

That’s cool and all, if that floats your boat, but what I’m talking about is someone who has a genuine interest, fondness, and deep affection for things that reflect a melancholy, a gloom, a doom, a general decay and reflection of mortality or pessimism. Things that are just a bit askew from the norm. The incomprehensible or the unexplainable. Liminal places of abandonment and decay. Rain clouds and fog. Desolate fields. Ruined buildings and oddly constructed houses. The vastness of outer space. Magnolias draped in Spanish moss. Mausoleums. Subterranean places. Attics. Abandoned barns and industrial sites. Vast stretches of trees. Cheap carnivals. Ancient caves at the bottom of the sea. The beautifully grotesque and the (Big G) Gothic."

I really liked this.

[T.E. Grau]

Thanks, Mr. Veech.

That bit was a nod to a TLO thread.