We had thought about idling through the Metropolitan Museum, but decided that a meal (at a wonderful Italian restaurant) and general discussion would be pleasanter-and it was. I have known Linda, an old friend from Brown, since 1980. We also spent a pleasant afternoon (the 18th) with my old friends Linda Aro and Chris Pfaff. We’ll have to choose another venue for these events in future. But the pub itself (especially on Saturday the 18th) was so crowded and noisy that it detracted significantly from the overall event. Klein, Henry Wessels, Gabriel Mesa, Stefan Dziemianowicz, Heather Poirier (who had come up from Washington, D.C.), Scott Briggs, Peter Cannon, the venerable Fred Phillips, and of course Derrick Hussey, who arranged the dinners. At two dinners at the Playwright Irish pub (27 West 35th Street), we had interesting chats with T. E. D. All this seems a rather paltry result of the thousands of dollars that the trip cost-but of course the chief focus of the trip was meeting friends old and new. I also managed to snag a few poems by Winifred Virginia Jackson for our eventual edition of her collected poetry. I managed to spend portions of two days at the New York Public Library, where I hunted up items relating to the Lovecraft/Long letters. Well, Mary and I made our first trip to New York (March 15–19) in five years, but the results were quite mixed. I am engaged in a multitude of hugely time-consuming projects and in any event, I am becoming increasingly doubtful whether anyone is interested in my activities. I usually get multiple copies of Hippocampus Press books.Īlso, I shall probably not be writing blog posts with any great frequency-no more than once a month. Those few individuals who are interested in purchasing my new books are welcome to solicit me directly to see if spare copies are available. I believe at least four volumes, perhaps more, of the Black Wings series have been translated, along with a collection of my own Lovecraftian stories (shown in the photograph).īecause of the marked lack of enthusiasm regarding recent books that I have offered for sale, I shall no longer be making such offers in the future.

H.P. Lovecraft by S.T. Joshi