{"id":47171,"date":"2021-04-24T05:11:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T02:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=47171"},"modified":"2021-04-24T05:11:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T02:11:40","slug":"the-author-and-journalist-1924-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/04\/24\/the-author-and-journalist-1924-66\/","title":{"rendered":"The Author and Journalist, 1916-69"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newly on Archive.org, the U.S trade magazine for writers <em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/pub_author-journalist\">The Author and Journalist<\/a><\/em>. It appears to be a complete 1916-69 run.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/nov1961.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/nov1961.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"382\" height=\"593\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47172\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>November 1961, a science-fiction special.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>August 1948 had Lovecraft&#8217;s tips for constructing a tale, via Rimel&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/story1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/story1.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"826\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-47179\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/story2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/story2.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"810\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-47178\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The canny sub-editor has paired the then-unusual name with an article on choosing a distinctive pen-name, and a verse about love.<\/p>\n<p>June 1959 also has Derleth on &#8220;The Biographer&#8217;s Goal&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; in virtually nothing of his work save his letters did H.P. Lovecraft emerge, except by indirection, as a reclusive introvert, who lived far more in the past than in the present &#8230; it required some psychiatric knowledge to be able to put together even so short a biography as <em>H.P.L.<\/em> &#8230; The Facts &mdash; the <em>known<\/em> facts &mdash; occupied only 12 pages of the biography &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The run, as it stands on Archive.org, also includes <em>The Student Writer<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly on Archive.org, the U.S trade magazine for writers The Author and Journalist. It appears to be a complete 1916-69 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/04\/24\/the-author-and-journalist-1924-66\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}