A most interesting aside on Wilum Pugmire’s moft esteemed blog today, writing of the creative plans of the Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi…
“S.T.’s moft astounding plot as fiction writer is to write a biographical novel on the life of H. P. Lovecraft”
That would be quite something. I’m reminded of a quote from Guy Davenport (whose fiction Pugmire should certainly know, if he doesn’t already), in which he writes…
“Biographies grasp the exteriors of lives and give what account they can of their interiors. These can be wholly different realities.” — Guy Davenport in “Ruskin”.