A Microinterview with ST Joshi - Believer Magazine

 

["THE BELIEVER: You are the curator of three of America’s greatest misanthropes: Mencken, Bierce, and Lovecraft. Do you hate humanity?

S.T. JOSHI: I’m not sure that any of the three writers in question really were misanthropes—Lovecraft certainly wasn’t, proclaiming himself an “indifferentist”—and if I have any misanthropy of my own, it probably derives more from Schopenhauer and Nietzsche than from Mencken, Bierce, or Lovecraft. Hatred is too exhausting an emotion to maintain for very long, or at all; I have better things to do with my time and energy than to go around hating anyone."]

I can testify that Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi is a warm , compassionate human being . I recall ( as an obscure " Providence friend " along with Ron Marshall and Herb Marshall ) Joshi describing himself as a conservative SOCIALIST very much like HPL himself in the last years of his life.

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A Microinterview with ST Joshi - Believer Magazine

This issue features a microinterview with S. T. Joshi, conducted by Fritz Swanson. Joshi began his career as an H. P. Lovecraft scholar at the age of seventeen, in 1975. The compilation of criticism, H. P. Lovecraft: Four Decades of Criticism, that Joshi began as a young man led to a comprehensive b...