It's a shame you didn't get to cull a news story that didn't just recycle the old cliches about PKD - takes amphetamines and drugs, check, wrote to KGB, check, many wives, check - or appeared to be written by someone who actually has read him, because McGrath doesn't say anything new himself.
In what way Dick was neglected since his death? Individual books have come in and out of print, but he's been available to buy since his death pretty constantly. There have been conference and symposiums devoted to him, two biographies - one of which has gone through several editions - endless articles in the press, several PhDs. If that's neglected then you need a new word for James A. Emanuel. Dick had just been given a big fat cheque from the Blade Runner people; he wasn't penniless like Hurston at his death. He had rough times during his life time, and was always more appreciated in France than the US, but his posthumous reappreciation was pretty swift and happened back in the 1980s.
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Re: Philip K. Dick
Date: 2007-05-07 05:52 pm (UTC)It's a shame you didn't get to cull a news story that didn't just recycle the old cliches about PKD - takes amphetamines and drugs, check, wrote to KGB, check, many wives, check - or appeared to be written by someone who actually has read him, because McGrath doesn't say anything new himself.
In what way Dick was neglected since his death? Individual books have come in and out of print, but he's been available to buy since his death pretty constantly. There have been conference and symposiums devoted to him, two biographies - one of which has gone through several editions - endless articles in the press, several PhDs. If that's neglected then you need a new word for James A. Emanuel. Dick had just been given a big fat cheque from the Blade Runner people; he wasn't penniless like Hurston at his death. He had rough times during his life time, and was always more appreciated in France than the US, but his posthumous reappreciation was pretty swift and happened back in the 1980s.