Re: New Ligotti Interview in Weird Tales Spring Issue
 

Copies are being reported as existing in the real world. I will document when my subscription copy arrives.

Re: New Ligotti Interview in Weird Tales Spring Issue
 

To-day's poft just deliver'd ye issue! It looks fantastic & ye contents is tantalizing. Contents:
FICTION:
"Weirott," Jeffrey Ford; "The Garbacologist," Jeff Johnson; "Headstone In My Pocket," Paul Tremblay; "Bruise For Bruise," Robert Davies; "Court Scranto," Caleb Wilson; "Selected Views of Mt. Fuji, with Dinosaurs," Hunter Eden.

Interviews: Thomas Ligotti, Richard Corden

DEPARTMENTS:
The Eyrie
Weirdism: "the death magic of J. G. Ballard"
The Library, reviews of Tanith Lee and Catherynne Valente books
The Bazaar: "a Miskatonic neo-Victorian artstravaganza"
Harvey Pelican & Co.
Lost in Lovecraft: "the Antarctic"
The Cryptic: "the ghostly wherefores of M. R. James"

Sara Salmi's cover, "Libra," is quite wonderful

Re: New Ligotti Interview in Weird Tales Spring Issue
 

Argh, nothing for me yet... I did receive my copy of Mr. Pulver Sr.'s "Blood Will Have Its Season" via Amazon though, so that was nice. Really looking forward to reading this!

Re: New Ligotti Interview in Weird Tales Spring Issue
 

OK, I finally got my copy, huzzah. I have already read a lot of it; the TL interview is on the short side - about 5 pages - but worthwhile. I get the feeling that it was conducted by email, as all of the questions are stand-alone, with no follow up to anything TL answers. Still, I knew it would be good when I read the first line of the interview proper:
Nice.

As expected, I like some of the stories in this issue more than others, although I have enjoyed everything on some level so far. "The Garbacologist" by Jeff Johnson is a stand-out, and makes me want to seek out more of his work.

(I also thought it was kinda funny to receive this Spring issue days after the Autumnal Equinox!)

Re: New Ligotti Interview in Weird Tales Spring Issue
 

I hope you enjoy BLOOD! And I hope you've gotten your copy of "WT"!

I can't get "WT" here, but I'm on my way to NYC today for my book release party, so I'll grab a copy in The City.

Happy reading!

All my bEastly best,

Joe

Re: New Ligotti Interview in Weird Tales Spring Issue
 

Tom does pretty much all his interviews in this format; an interviewer sends the questions via email and he responds. I know because I read them usually months before they are ever published and receive them as a word document attached to an email. (In fact, I just read one that will be published in the coming months that you'll find out about soon enough, and another outstanding interview with some pretty thought-provoking questions presented to him.) It's one of the reasons you'll see such incredibly well constructed answers. Not that he couldn't do them "in person" equally effectively, but you'll notice the amount of detail in his responses. The good news is he puts a ton of effort into answering the questions in a way that make them really something special and not just rote responses. To me, Tom's interviews never get old or boring, only because he has a universe of answers in his head.

Occasionally, if Tom knows the interviewer, it could happen by phone, and a few have, but this email format is how the vast majority of them are conducted.

Re: New Ligotti Interview in Weird Tales Spring Issue
 

I love when Tom discusses Lovecraft, either in interviews or essays. He has a way of shewing aspects of HPL's art that are so intelligent and so right. He is amazing. He's like Lovecraft to me in that everything he utters is intensely interesting -- fascinating, beguiling. And his fiction -- GAWD!! How I ache to read more of his poetry.

Re: New Ligotti Interview in Weird Tales Spring Issue
 

In truth, I would say that some were slight follow ups. It was certainly a process of trying to find the most fruitful ground.(By the way, my copy arrived today. I haven't re-read it yet, but the link to here and the picture of him make it wonderful too.)

Re: New Ligotti Interview in Weird Tales Spring Issue
 

I received my copy in the mail yesterday. I've an odd thing about magazines: I love to have them, but I tend just to skim a bit and place it on the pile with the others. Weird Tales, though definitely a quality publication, is usually treated in the same manner. Yesterday was different though and I ended up sitting down with the issue and actually giving it a proper go.

One of the first things that drew my eye in the issue was the interview, though for no specific reason. I had never heard of Ligotti before yesterday. That he discussed Poe, one of my favorite authors, was more than enough to pique my interest, but the excellent interview cemented the desire to read more from Ligotti, which I will be doing as soon as possible.

Actually, this issue really impressed me when it came to the non-fiction pieces (I haven't gotten around to the fiction). The tribute to Ballard and the article on M.R. James were both well done--and added to my purchasing list--as was the bit about Lovecraft and the Antarctic.

Having never read anything by Ligotti, it is slightly awkward posting here, but it was Weird Tales that led me here and this seems to be one of the few discussions about on the mag. So not too awkward.

Re: New Ligotti Interview in Weird Tales Spring Issue
 

I had read but one single collection and a few other tales by the time I joined TLO. I now have a nice wee library of Ligotti books, and my admiration for his astonishing talent continues to grow. He, like the best of authors, is one to whom you can return to again and again, finding new gems in stories that have been read over and over. His fiction, thus, is eternal, like the best of Poe and Lovecraft, &c &c.