"Springsteen is the king, don't you think?"

[greygirlbeast]

The sky outside my window is lead, and there's snow out towards the Cape, and there's snow down in New York. So says the radar. Here, the sky is pregnant, heavy, and we'll not see the sun today. Day before yesterday, it seems there was snow before we awoke, just a little. I'd hoped this was still a month or so away. What is hope but wishful

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[martianmooncrab]

Three. Like a signal.

...and from the Red Planet...

[greygirlbeast]

"'The chances against anything manlike on Mars are a million to one,' he said."

[martianmooncrab]

now I need to find my Jeff Wayne CD's and play that music today... and listen to the gravelly welshness of Sir Richard Burton as he narrates..

[greygirlbeast]

A favorite of mine since 1979.

[setsuled]

If you'd like to hear the podcast that I did during World Fantasy #40, with Peter Straub, Gary K. Wolfe, and Jonathan Strahan, it's right here:

I listened to that yesterday while sewing. The degree to which an artist's intention affects his or her work is something I think about a lot lately. I think intention is important but I think audiences do often overestimate the conscious control an artist asserts over his or her work. Partly I think this is represented in the Dionysian/Apollonian dichotomy, though I think the association between Apollo and dreams makes that awkward here. Because I'm reminded how much Lovecraft and Luis Bunuel and many others drew inspiration from dreams to achieve a more Dionysian effect.

It's also partly for this reason I feel even very moderate censorship is harmful to art.

[greygirlbeast]

Partly I think this is represented in the Dionysian/Apollonian dichotomy, though I think the association between Apollo and dreams makes that awkward here. Because I'm reminded how much Lovecraft and Luis Bunuel and many others drew inspiration from dreams to achieve a more Dionysian effect.

I have long accepted my Dionysian nature.

It's also partly for this reason I feel even very moderate censorship is harmful to art.

Yes.

[aarongp]

Listened to the podcast yesterday, it was delightful.
I was particularly struck by the discussion about the majority of readers' need for genre safeness, and the lack of willingness to simply follow a writer to the next work because you like that writer, regardless of what she has done before.
Having worked in a bookstore and now a library, I encounter this in discussions with people all the time.
Anyway, it was great listening to and Peter, so thank you.
Hope you have recovered from the trip.

[greygirlbeast]

I was particularly struck by the discussion about the majority of readers' need for genre safeness, and the lack of willingness to simply follow a writer to the next work because you like that writer, regardless of what she has done before.

It is a deeply frustrating problem.

Wilum H. Pugmire

[kiki60]

Wilum has Youtube channel, he discussed the book there. Strange, it's such small community.