Happy 80th, Dick Lupoff! (Sci-fi author: "Lisa Kane: A Novel of the Supernatural," 1976)

[leno...@yahoo.com]

Born in Brooklyn, he now lives in Berkeley.

http://tachyonpub.tumblr.com/post/111593837367/happy-80th-birthday-to-the-legendary-writer-and
(one short birthday tribute)

http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lupoff_richard_a
(about his work)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_A._Lupoff
(more about his work, including a 2013 photo)

http://fancyclopedia.org/richard-lupoff

Excerpt:

"Richard (Dick) Lupoff is credited with helping found comic book fandom
and then disowning it."


http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?561
(LONG bibliography)

https://www.google.com/search?q=richard+lupoff&biw=1016&bih=574&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=hbroVI6rHoLesASBroKgCA&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAg#tbm=isch&q=richard+lupoff+books&imgdii=_
(book covers and photos)

http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/intral.htm
(LONG interview from 2001)

Excerpt:

NG: As your new collection, Claremont Tales, demonstrates, you're an author
of many voices; The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction entry dealing with
you notes your versatile ability as a pasticheur. Why do you wander
so restlessly between genres and styles?

RAL: I'm not so sure that I'd put it that way -- wandering restlessly
between genres and styles -- but I think I see your point. I've always
thought of myself as a story-teller rather than as a science fiction writer,
or a mystery writer, or a mainstream writer. Those category and subcategory designations are useful. I'm not opposed to taxonomy. But I think
that existence does indeed precede essence.

What I do then, is approach each story as an entity unto itself, and try
to write it as best I can. If that calls for a formal, stylized approach,
then that's what I use. If a story is best told in a naturalistic,
informal manner, I'll do that. Similarly, if a given notion or feeling or
image seems best expressed as a supernatural horror story or a humorous
fantasy, I'll write it that way.

Some critics [including yours truly -- NG] have suggested that I'm forever
hiding behind masks, a great variety of masks, and they would like to see
the "real" Dick Lupoff who's lurking behind those artificial personas. But
in fact I think it's more a matter of face-paint than of masks. The colors
and patterns of the paint may change but the face is always the same...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMFWSUIMLfk
(88-minute video)

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=richard+lupoff&tbm=vid
(other videos)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0526981/
(very short filmography)

https://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2011/01/10/interview-richard-a-lupoff-on-1202-p-m/
(2011 interview about his movie)

https://www.sfsite.com/11a/xe187.htm
(a review from 2004)


Lenona.

[leno...@yahoo.com]

About "Lisa Kane":

"A twelve-year-old girl growing up in a New England town discovers that she
is a werewolf by heredity."


Lenona.