The Horror, The Horror

By James Parker

Much as it might suit my obscure and inhuman agenda to sling a brickbat in the direction of McSweeney’s, The Believer and the entire gasbag citadel of Eggers-ville, in the case of Michel Houellebecq’s H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life, I [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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    Great, hilarious review! You might like this anecdote: in the mid-90’s I recorded several CDs w/ Stephin Merritt and Magnetic Fields. During a session, while arranging a song, Stephin was stuck for a phrase. Smirking in his dry way, he opened a Lovecraft book and randomly selected: “...hideous city of unknown words..” You’ll hear it on Distant Plastic Trees cut 17. As Sammy Davis Jr used to say, “Whatever works, Babe.”

    Best, Susan

    United States Posted by S. Anway on May 18, 2005 at 9:19 AM
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