Gene Wolfe KPFA Radio Interview (1982)

[@dig_limited]

I always come back to your channel.... Nice little hidden gem....

[@oleghrozman4172]

He is one of my most favourite writers. True master. R.I.P.

[@teak43]

Many desperate to uncover the mystery of 5th Head, and here's Gene Wolfe giving the answers out for free.

[@andrewguarnieri2979]

RIP Wolfe. Thank you so much for the upload

[@PolarRed]

A true master. Thank you for this.

[@jerryfiore5818]

Very cool interview. I met Gene at Capricon in February 1988 - cool guy - *except* he pushed-off an older SF fan, "Rockhound Cam" on us! 😜😆I'll never forget that, as Gene was so not subtle about it! LOL!

[@clarkdissneyer8225]

I am too stupid and too bad a reader to get Gene Wolfe but I keep trying and things like this are very helpful, so thank you!

[@publiusventidiusbassus1232]

The fact you consider yourself inadequate to understand him puts you farther than most. It takes intelligence to realize one's own lack of resources.

[@someobserver844]

Thanks for uploading this. I loved Book of the New Sun (have not read Urth, though) and have Peace on my TBR. I couldn't get past the first novella of Fifth Head of Cerberus; I guess I should try that again. One of the reasons for Wolfe remaining niche is probably that he's still hard to market to a larger audience. He's too sophisticated to gain significantly more genre readers than he already has, but his books are also too firmly rooted in SFF to garner the interest of readers with a serious interest in literature who don't really care about genre fiction.

[@TheBossMan5000]

Definitely read Urth asap, it's the true "3rd act" of the entire story.

[@someobserver844]

@@TheBossMan5000 I'll definitely read it when I revisit BotNS. As I said, I liked it a lot, but after 800 pages I felt I that I had enough of Severian for now, certainly enough that I did not want to read Urth just jet. I'm certainly curious to read it for myself since it's exact merits are rather controversial in some circles.

[@hyperTorless]

Good content as always!

[@harrison_williams]

God bless you for this fragment of Gene Wolfe! ❤

[@pavel1573]

The interview starts at 2:44