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* [http://poems.com/special_features/prose/essay_crowley.php Boston Review obituary] - by John Crowley | * [http://poems.com/special_features/prose/essay_crowley.php Boston Review obituary] - by John Crowley | ||
* [http://www.themillions.com/2010/04/the-prescient-science-fiction-of-thomas-m-disch.html The Prescient Science Fiction of Thomas M. Disch] - by David Auerbach | * [http://www.themillions.com/2010/04/the-prescient-science-fiction-of-thomas-m-disch.html The Prescient Science Fiction of Thomas M. Disch] - by David Auerbach | ||
| − | * [http:// | + | * [http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/articles/interview-thomas-m-disch/ A wide-ranging Disch interview] from 2001 by David Horwich |
* [https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/interviews/disch29interview.htm Another long interview] by Joseph Francavilla, ''Science Fiction Studies'' #29, 1983 | * [https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/interviews/disch29interview.htm Another long interview] by Joseph Francavilla, ''Science Fiction Studies'' #29, 1983 | ||
| + | * [https://www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/2015/03/01/unearthing-my-1984-interview-with-thomas-m-disch/ Another interview] from 1984 by Scott Edelman, originally published in ''Last Wave'', winter 1986 | ||
| + | * "[https://www.cprw.com/Yezzi/disch.htm Thomas M., Meet Tom]" by David Yezzi, ''Contemporary Poetry Review'', 2008. | ||
* Disch's long autobiographical essays in ''Something About the Author Autobiography Series'', vol. 15, and ''Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series'', vol. 4 (Gale), both of which are widely available from library reference desks: ''Something About...'' is aimed at children and ''Contemporary Authors'' is not, but Disch's pieces in both of them (written in the mid-1980s) are informative and drily funny. The former piece, "My Life as a Child", also appeared in the October and November 1992 issues of ''Amazing Stories''. | * Disch's long autobiographical essays in ''Something About the Author Autobiography Series'', vol. 15, and ''Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series'', vol. 4 (Gale), both of which are widely available from library reference desks: ''Something About...'' is aimed at children and ''Contemporary Authors'' is not, but Disch's pieces in both of them (written in the mid-1980s) are informative and drily funny. The former piece, "My Life as a Child", also appeared in the October and November 1992 issues of ''Amazing Stories''. | ||
Latest revision as of 19:26, 5 January 2025
Thomas M. Disch (1940-2008), New Wave SF visionary, poet, anatomist of New York City and Minnesota, Gothic experimenter, critic, crank. Did a lot of different things. Sorely missed.
Notes are here for these books:
Other reading
- Wikipedia - biography etc.
- Schrödinger's Cake - comprehensive fan site by Matthew Davis
- Boston Review obituary - by John Crowley
- The Prescient Science Fiction of Thomas M. Disch - by David Auerbach
- A wide-ranging Disch interview from 2001 by David Horwich
- Another long interview by Joseph Francavilla, Science Fiction Studies #29, 1983
- Another interview from 1984 by Scott Edelman, originally published in Last Wave, winter 1986
- "Thomas M., Meet Tom" by David Yezzi, Contemporary Poetry Review, 2008.
- Disch's long autobiographical essays in Something About the Author Autobiography Series, vol. 15, and Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, vol. 4 (Gale), both of which are widely available from library reference desks: Something About... is aimed at children and Contemporary Authors is not, but Disch's pieces in both of them (written in the mid-1980s) are informative and drily funny. The former piece, "My Life as a Child", also appeared in the October and November 1992 issues of Amazing Stories.