Jack Kerouac and H.P. Lovecraft
It seems that Nick Mamatas has seen fit to do a novelized critique of HPL’s writings using the voice of Jack Kerouac. Heres a small bit from Geoffrey H. Goodwin’s interview with Nick Mamatas:
You’re a Lovecraftian, so putting Cthulhu in Move Under Ground might not be shocking, but what made you want to use Jack Kerouac’s voice of bop prosody for a narrator?
I’m a Lovecraftian? What does that mean? I’m surely not receiving invitations to write for all those Mythos anthologies that keep getting published. I just wonder why this question wasn’t inverted. “You’re a Kerouacian, so putting Jack in Move under Ground, might not be shocking…” Anyway, Kerouac and Lovecraft are two peas in a pod as far as I am concerned. Mother issues, check. New England outsiders, check. Aimed at but fell short of the Ivy League, check. Whispers and rumors of homosexuality, check. The center of circles of correspondents, writers, and now cults of readers, check. Long, baroque sentences that sometimes collapsed under their own weight to such an extent that they punched through space-time and became utterly weightless and perfect, check. Victims of dozens of horrible pastiches, check. Plus, if you read Doctor Sax, it’s all there.
The rest of the article is pretty interesting; all chock full of fun comments and ideas. Go check out the article over at Bookslut.