we wuz robbed!

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What great books have we been robbed of? I am thinking authors of course - Trocchi (not just a junky, so much better than Burroughs!) with his heroin problem and numerous others with the same problem. Also Raymond Radiguet's premature death. Who else showed immense promise only to vanish?

― Pavlos, Saturday, 17 January 2004 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Sebald.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 17 January 2004 00:55 (twenty-two years ago)

what about that dude who wrote that book about that weird kid who hated phony people. the kid wore a hunting jacket and a baseball cap. what was his name again? i wonder what that guy has been up to.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 17 January 2004 02:35 (twenty-two years ago)

flannery o'connor too. although, i don't know how she could have improved upon her published work.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 17 January 2004 02:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Kind of unfortunate about John Keats, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Edward Thomas and Christopher Marlowe.

― pete s, Saturday, 17 January 2004 03:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Stephen Crane! He wasn't done creating modern american literature! Well, he was almost done.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 17 January 2004 03:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Thank goodness you didn't say Hart Crane.....

― pete s, Saturday, 17 January 2004 03:24 (twenty-two years ago)

We never got the version of "Answered Prayers" Capote promised us.

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Sunday, 18 January 2004 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

we were never gonna get that though.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 18 January 2004 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

True, but I lived in hope.

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Sunday, 18 January 2004 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, I've had a good deal of difficulty in locating a copy of Zamatyn's (sp?) 'We'.

― writingstatic (writingstatic), Sunday, 18 January 2004 22:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll probably never be an esteemed author because I get distracted. That's too bad.

― B. Michael Payne (This Isnt That), Sunday, 18 January 2004 23:56 (twenty-two years ago)

What?

― Cupie (Cupie), Monday, 19 January 2004 06:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Funny you should mention Trocchi, Pavlos. I just read Young Adam and Helen & Desire. Do you really think he had anything left to say? Do you think he would have written more (or better?) without the addiction to heroin and alcohol?

Perhaps one thing he didn't envisage was Ewan McGregorg sailing down the Clyde.

― MikeyG (MikeyG), Monday, 19 January 2004 10:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Keith Douglas. One of my favourite poets, but he also wrote the wonderful prose memoir "Alamein to Zem Zem", and I think he would have gone on to write more prose. Poor bugger was killed by a sniper in Northern France shortly after the D Day landings.

― R bunged V (Jake Proudlock), Monday, 19 January 2004 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

George Orwell. 47.

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 19 January 2004 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Denton Welch, author of 'In Youth is Pleasure' and 'A Voice Through a Cloud'.

― pete s, Monday, 19 January 2004 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm beginning to feel robbed by Spalding Gray's absence. Someone make him come back.

― Jessa (Jessa), Monday, 19 January 2004 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Bruce Chatwin. Reckoned he died of a tropical disease. Hmmm, unprotected sex with evey bloke in Africa? AIDS I reckon.

― MikeyG (MikeyG), Monday, 19 January 2004 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

well, there's ralph ellison's much-anticipated second novel - lost in a fire. damn.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 05:06 (twenty-two years ago)

John Kennedy Toole.

― charles hanson (whynotsneeze), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

Loren Elseley -- 1907-1977

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Eiseley.

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Thursday, 15 April 2004 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Chatterton (committed suicide at 17) and Rimbaud (gave up writing at 20).

― RR (restandrec), Friday, 16 April 2004 02:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Louis Owens 1948-2002.

― slow learner (slow learner), Friday, 16 April 2004 02:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Raymond Carver

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Friday, 16 April 2004 03:17 (twenty-two years ago)

What about the gals - Plath, Austen, Brontes x 3

― sandy mc (sandy mc), Saturday, 17 April 2004 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

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