Saturday, March 25, 2017
1987 Alan Moore Interview Lost then Found
1987 Alan Moore Interview Lost then Found
Last year I received word from Vincent, a young French police cadet whod read Way of the Warrior, and we quickly struck up a friendship. I told you that I get interesting emails. Who knew?
As time went on, we began to discuss a wide variety of topics, and as anyone whos ever spoken to me for more than five minutes knows, the bottle may spin and spin but it always lands on one thing: Literature. Favorite authors, favorite books, of all stripes and creeds. I play no favorites when it comes to genre and to me, Patrick Suskind is worth a thousand Emily Dickinsons. You can have Thomas Pynchon (shudder) and James Joyce. Ill be quite fine with Stephen King and Neal Stephenson.
The one author who is positively, absolutely, not negotiable when discussing the Greats within my presence is Alan Moore.
If you diss Alan Moore and I am there, we are fighting. Pistols, knives, bazookas, you name it. I will defend his name unto the bloody end and curse you as a nincompoop if you say otherwise.
So, lo and behold, my good friend Vincent caught wind of one of my discussions about the virtues of our favorite friend from Northamptonshire and happened to mention that oh, once upon a time, his father Christian Lehmann had interviewed the great shaggy man of letters, and had LOST the fecking interview.
Well.
Needless to say, I rallied. I cajoled. I begged and I plead. I said, in no small way, PLEASE ask your father to look around and see if he might be able to, just possibly, if he has any decency, find said interview?
And my dear friend Vincent calmly notified me one day that this had been accomplished.
So, after twenty-five years, the interview has been unearthed and republished. A special thanks goes out to Christian Lehman for finding the piece, and his son Vincent for harassing him until it was done. As a fan of Alan Moore, let me just say that we are in your debt.
Now, you dont happen to have any lost Charles Bukowski interviews laying around somewhere, do you?
To Read Christian Lehmanns 1987 Interview with Alan Moore, Click this Link
As time went on, we began to discuss a wide variety of topics, and as anyone whos ever spoken to me for more than five minutes knows, the bottle may spin and spin but it always lands on one thing: Literature. Favorite authors, favorite books, of all stripes and creeds. I play no favorites when it comes to genre and to me, Patrick Suskind is worth a thousand Emily Dickinsons. You can have Thomas Pynchon (shudder) and James Joyce. Ill be quite fine with Stephen King and Neal Stephenson.
The one author who is positively, absolutely, not negotiable when discussing the Greats within my presence is Alan Moore.
If you diss Alan Moore and I am there, we are fighting. Pistols, knives, bazookas, you name it. I will defend his name unto the bloody end and curse you as a nincompoop if you say otherwise.
So, lo and behold, my good friend Vincent caught wind of one of my discussions about the virtues of our favorite friend from Northamptonshire and happened to mention that oh, once upon a time, his father Christian Lehmann had interviewed the great shaggy man of letters, and had LOST the fecking interview.
Well.
Needless to say, I rallied. I cajoled. I begged and I plead. I said, in no small way, PLEASE ask your father to look around and see if he might be able to, just possibly, if he has any decency, find said interview?
And my dear friend Vincent calmly notified me one day that this had been accomplished.
So, after twenty-five years, the interview has been unearthed and republished. A special thanks goes out to Christian Lehman for finding the piece, and his son Vincent for harassing him until it was done. As a fan of Alan Moore, let me just say that we are in your debt.
Now, you dont happen to have any lost Charles Bukowski interviews laying around somewhere, do you?
To Read Christian Lehmanns 1987 Interview with Alan Moore, Click this Link
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