Comments for Richard Godwin http://www.richardgodwin.net Writer of Noir, Crime and Horror, playwright Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:34:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on Chin Wag At The Slaughterhouse: Interview With Jill Edmondson by Paul D Brazilluk http://www.richardgodwin.net/auhtor-interviews-extensive/chin-wag-at-the-slaughterhouse-interview-with-jill-edmondson#comment-17204 Paul D Brazilluk Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:34:06 +0000 http://www.richardgodwin.net/?p=2797#comment-17204 Good stuff. Like the Conrad quote very much. Good stuff. Like the Conrad quote very much.

]]> Comment on Chin Wag At The Slaugherhouse: Interview With John Domini by richardgodwin http://www.richardgodwin.net/auhtor-interviews-extensive/chin-wag-at-the-slaugherhouse-interview-with-john-domini#comment-17197 richardgodwin Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:39:29 +0000 http://www.richardgodwin.net/?p=2779#comment-17197 Thank you John for an astute and great interview. Thank you John for an astute and great interview.

]]> Comment on Chin Wag At The Slaugherhouse: Interview With John Domini by James Robison http://www.richardgodwin.net/auhtor-interviews-extensive/chin-wag-at-the-slaugherhouse-interview-with-john-domini#comment-17047 James Robison Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:45:43 +0000 http://www.richardgodwin.net/?p=2779#comment-17047 Strong substantial interview--made better by how much I agree with John on pretty much everything. Thank you, Slaughterhouse. (Now, there's a sentence I thought I would never type.) Strong substantial interview–made better by how much I agree with John on pretty much everything. Thank you, Slaughterhouse. (Now, there’s a sentence I thought I would never type.)

]]> Comment on Chin Wag At The Slaugherhouse: Interview With John Domini by AJ Hayes http://www.richardgodwin.net/auhtor-interviews-extensive/chin-wag-at-the-slaugherhouse-interview-with-john-domini#comment-17005 AJ Hayes Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:47:13 +0000 http://www.richardgodwin.net/?p=2779#comment-17005 Where to start? Well hell, okay. Gibson. Pattern Recognition -- the whole Blue Ant trilogy, in fact -- judged Science Fiction by the genre makers. It is present day society with very little reliance (if any) on science fiction tropes, yet accepted by that community, perhaps to its disadvantage by guilt of association. Burroughs and Gardener figure in Gibson's world (agree complety that he defines the miniaturization of present day/near day society -- except for the wealthy -- as good as anyone out there.) Burroughs influence is in him obviously and Gardener --if only though a mini-reference in the title Pattern Recognition to Grendel's main theme: man, the pattern maker. I'm also a player for the notion that "literary" as a term is and has been dead for a long while, probably from the time Tom Wolfe publicly denounced it in the Nineties. "The death of God left the angels in a strange position.” is one of my all time top favorite lines. For a while I had it taped to my computer and would look at it every time I needed a bit of direction with a story I was writing. That single line teaches you exactly what irony is all about. Religion. In the US especially, that pendulum swings in great big , exceedingly slow, arcs. So yeah, as the church of the Sixties peace, love, togetherness and -- as Burroughs put it -- "drugs, damned and glorious" to the current Feel Good New Age Believers. Quo Vadis? Who knows? In the park across from my place the evangelicals hold loud sway volumewise. Could the US as a theocracy in the future come about? Yeah, I wouldn't doubt it much. In fact it was written about as a favorite theme in the early to middle Fifties by such writers as Heinlein, Kornbluth (though I think his, The Marching Morons might fit my version of near future society a bit more closely. Maybe throw in Kornbluth and Pohl's, The Space Merchants for its look at the US as a dystopia too) and a lot of the Golden Agers of that form. As you can see, I've started to blather. I'll print this out and read and re-reread it over the next couple of days so I don't miss a morsel. Thanks, Gents. This one's gonna go on my reference shelf. Where to start? Well hell, okay. Gibson. Pattern Recognition — the whole Blue Ant trilogy, in fact — judged Science Fiction by the genre makers. It is present day society with very little reliance (if any) on science fiction tropes, yet accepted by that community, perhaps to its disadvantage by guilt of association. Burroughs and Gardener figure in Gibson’s world (agree complety that he defines the miniaturization of present day/near day society — except for the wealthy — as good as anyone out there.) Burroughs influence is in him obviously and Gardener –if only though a mini-reference in the title Pattern Recognition to Grendel’s main theme: man, the pattern maker. I’m also a player for the notion that “literary” as a term is and has been dead for a long while, probably from the time Tom Wolfe publicly denounced it in the Nineties.
“The death of God left the angels in a strange position.” is one of my all time top favorite lines. For a while I had it taped to my computer and would look at it every time I needed a bit of direction with a story I was writing. That single line teaches you exactly what irony is all about.
Religion. In the US especially, that pendulum swings in great big , exceedingly slow, arcs. So yeah, as the church of the Sixties peace, love, togetherness and — as Burroughs put it — “drugs, damned and glorious” to the current Feel Good New Age Believers. Quo Vadis? Who knows? In the park across from my place the evangelicals hold loud sway volumewise. Could the US as a theocracy in the future come about? Yeah, I wouldn’t doubt it much. In fact it was written about as a favorite theme in the early to middle Fifties by such writers as Heinlein, Kornbluth (though I think his, The Marching Morons might fit my version of near future society a bit more closely. Maybe throw in Kornbluth and Pohl’s, The Space Merchants for its look at the US as a dystopia too) and a lot of the Golden Agers of that form.
As you can see, I’ve started to blather. I’ll print this out and read and re-reread it over the next couple of days so I don’t miss a morsel.
Thanks, Gents. This one’s gonna go on my reference shelf.

]]> Comment on Chin Wag At The Slaugherhouse: Interview With John Domini by callan http://www.richardgodwin.net/auhtor-interviews-extensive/chin-wag-at-the-slaugherhouse-interview-with-john-domini#comment-16996 callan Sat, 18 Feb 2012 17:24:44 +0000 http://www.richardgodwin.net/?p=2779#comment-16996 This was a breathtaking interview. There was so much meat in it. I loved the cometary on on the “Narrative arch” and the different shapes a story can take. It was so well put with such wonderful phrases, “saddle shape of universe. ” The critique of Easton's psycho was deeply satisfying articulate and shinning. The description of how reading effects the back of the brain. This was far and away my favorite slaughter house interview.......................... This was a breathtaking interview. There was so much meat in it. I loved the cometary on on the “Narrative arch” and the different shapes a story can take. It was so well put with such wonderful phrases, “saddle shape of universe. ”
The critique of Easton’s psycho was deeply satisfying articulate and shinning. The description of how reading effects the back of the brain. This was far and away my favorite slaughter house interview……………………..

]]> Comment on Chin Wag At The Slaughterhouse: Interview With Libby Hellmann by richardgodwin http://www.richardgodwin.net/auhtor-interviews-extensive/chin-wag-at-the-slaughterhouse-interview-with-libby-hellmann#comment-16991 richardgodwin Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:16:44 +0000 http://www.richardgodwin.net/?p=2764#comment-16991 Thank you Libby for a perceptive and intelligent interview. Thank you Libby for a perceptive and intelligent interview.

]]> Comment on Chin Wag At The Slaughterhouse: Interview With JD Mader by JD Mader http://www.richardgodwin.net/auhtor-interviews-extensive/chin-wag-at-the-slaughterhouse-interview-with-j-d-mader#comment-16976 JD Mader Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:15:14 +0000 http://www.richardgodwin.net/?p=2648#comment-16976 Thanks David, I appreciate you stopping by man. Thanks David, I appreciate you stopping by man.

]]> Comment on Chin Wag At The Slaughterhouse: Interview With Carrie Clevenger by Carrie Clevenger http://www.richardgodwin.net/auhtor-interviews-extensive/chin-wag-at-the-slaughterhouse-interview-with-carrie-clevenger#comment-16971 Carrie Clevenger Sat, 18 Feb 2012 06:46:18 +0000 http://www.richardgodwin.net/?p=2740#comment-16971 You're quite welcome, and that wine is exquisite. Caduceus. Check it out if you've opportunity. You’re quite welcome, and that wine is exquisite. Caduceus. Check it out if you’ve opportunity.

]]> Comment on Chin Wag At The Slaughterhouse: Interview With Carrie Clevenger by Carrie Clevenger http://www.richardgodwin.net/auhtor-interviews-extensive/chin-wag-at-the-slaughterhouse-interview-with-carrie-clevenger#comment-16970 Carrie Clevenger Sat, 18 Feb 2012 06:45:36 +0000 http://www.richardgodwin.net/?p=2740#comment-16970 AJ, you flatter me. I just think it's a whole bunch of pop, fizz, and crackle. Nobody's the enemy except for those who would see freedom of sale and reading abolished. A pleasure. Find me on Twitter. xx AJ, you flatter me. I just think it’s a whole bunch of pop, fizz, and crackle. Nobody’s the enemy except for those who would see freedom of sale and reading abolished. A pleasure. Find me on Twitter. xx

]]> Comment on Chin Wag At The Slaughterhouse: Interview With JD Mader by David Antrobus http://www.richardgodwin.net/auhtor-interviews-extensive/chin-wag-at-the-slaughterhouse-interview-with-j-d-mader#comment-16955 David Antrobus Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:10:41 +0000 http://www.richardgodwin.net/?p=2648#comment-16955 Been meaning to get to this for a long, long time—and boy, was it worth it. An excellent interview. I have a slightly different take on sex trade workers, but that's for another time and another place, and anyone who goes to a strip club to research a novel has my blessing. I could spin off almost every thought here. But I won't. Bravo, Dan and Richard. Truly insightful and stimulating stuff. Been meaning to get to this for a long, long time—and boy, was it worth it.

An excellent interview. I have a slightly different take on sex trade workers, but that’s for another time and another place, and anyone who goes to a strip club to research a novel has my blessing.

I could spin off almost every thought here. But I won’t. Bravo, Dan and Richard. Truly insightful and stimulating stuff.

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