>Doesn’t begin writing regularly until well into his 40’s
>Produced hundreds of short stories and novels
>New Wave of SFF writers are in awe of his brilliance
>Receives numerous awards and accolades
>Showed up to awards ceremonies and conventions constantly drunk
>Refused to be a part of their gay little circle
>Stopped writing in 1984
>Fricked around in Tulsa the rest of his life
>Refuses to elaborate
>Dies
How did this crotchety old fricker manage to be the best American short story writer since Flannery O’Connor while seemingly treating his writing to what amounts to a curious hobby?
BOOMERS pulling themselves up by their bootstraps. What else?
Taking the boomer pill after I finish this plate of beans and rice.
Lafferty was greatest generation. Born in 1914
Check and greatest generation pilled
Any good biography written on this Author?
https://benedictinstitute.org/2018/02/r-lafferty-greatest-catholic-novelist-never-heard/
Thanks, Fren
YGMI
literal who?
newbie detected
Genre fiction isn't writing.
did the smell of your own farts tell you that? midwit
This isn't literature.
says who?
>Doesn’t begin writing regularly until well into his 40’s
I'm guessing living more gives you more to write about?
>best short story writer
>writes science fiction
Lol
He’s classified as SFF, mainly because his stories are most certainly not “realistic”. But it’s not SFF as you traditionally define it. Imagine Flannery O’Connor writing Looney Toons Scripts edited by Borges and you MIGHT have a general description of what reading him is like. Better yet, read himself homosexual.
Too many writers I want to read and reread before I’ll pick up one with a sci-fi bent. O’Connor wrote a couple good stories and her output is more or less identical; you’ve read one you’ve read them all. I don’t like Borges either. Not sold at all on this Lafderty guy
I can smell your homosexual Psued ass through my screen. Ignoring literature because it doesn’t fit neatly into the label of “realistic fiction” is the first true tell sign of a pseud.
Pseud board and you’re here too
Nice stories, I'll be taking them, and be writing forwards for all of them.
I’m still mad at Gayman for gatekeeping his collection. Centipede is doing a good thing but limiting the books to a limited run and causing price gouging is lame. We need a new edition of Fourth Mansions
Most men don't have anything worthwhile to say until they're 30
What about women? They say they mature faster.
women can have worthwhile things to say as young as 10-12, anything from "i won't tell my parents" to "it feels funny but i like it"
Wtf
Frick you
Should have taken up STEM and then transitioned to writing later in life. It’s the true path of real writers. NGMI now anon.
>Should have taken up STEM and then transitioned
bump for this unheard of course of events