Talk:S. T. Joshi

message: I added a link to the Horror WikiProject since Joshi is connected to H.P. Lovecraft and thus to horror.  -Elizabennet 17:46, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: HorrorWikiProject

message: Exactly what was his criticism on these two authors? I'd like this to be expanded upon. - Casual Wiki Reader 
9:18, 8 July 2010  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.181.55.64 (talk)  
The late REH fan Steve Tompkins wrote a blog that explained why S.T. Joshi provoked such controversy among Howard's
admirers:
"S.T. Joshi’s article “Bran Mak Morn and History” in "Two-Gun Bob: A Centennial Study of Robert E. Howard" comes trailing a backstory that originated with the author’s 1996 magnum opus "H. P. Lovecraft: A Life". That book more than deserved its Bram Stoker and British Fantasy Awards, but phrases from the pages (502-503) on which Robert E. Howard is introduced as an untutored provincial-turned-pen pal were destined (and designed?) to live in infamy among even the least touchy Howardists: “Fanatical cadre of supporters,” “subliterary hackwork that does not even begin to approach genuine literature,” “[Howard's] views are not of any great substance and profundity,” “Howard’s style is crude, slipshod, and unwieldy.” The artful dismissal-intensifier “does not even begin to approach” is surpassed a page later when Joshi quotes Lovecraft’s “There’s a bird whose basic mentality seems to me just about the good respectable citizen’s. . .” evaluation of REH in a December 14, 1935 letter to Kenneth Sterling and then editorializes “If Howard’s later devotees would adhere to this view, they would make themselves a little less ridiculous in proclaiming vast profundity and originality for his work.” Only a little less ridiculous, mind you — that might qualify as the unkindest cut of all, were there not many cuts yet to come."
http://www.thecimmerian.com/now-it-can-be-told-the-poignance-of-subliterary-hackwork/
Tompkins admired Joshi's work, but he does explain why Joshi's work is so contentious among Howard fans. 176.61.94.25 (talk) 13:48, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Robert E. Howard and S. T. Joshi controversy?

message: I recently paid a visit to Joshi's official website, and made the startling observation that it was last updated sometime in 2004. I was wondering wether anybody could explain the absence of any futher updates on his website, and what Joshi is actually doing. I would be deeply greatful if anybody could direct me to any other websites with an up-to-date news section on Joshi. Eam91 14:17 (GMT) 16th of April 07.
:You could always ask the man himself. His email address is somewhere on the website, I believe. PhilipC 22:39, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The answer is that the Web site was created for him by someone else, and he doesn't have the ability to edit it himself. We should try to get site management back into his hands one of these days. GCL (talk) 20:12, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Since we were unable to update the old site, we helped him create a new site that went live today. I've updated the links in the article to point to http://stjoshi.org; please help spread this address so that it will eventually outrank the outdated version in search engines. (Maybe someday we'll get the original domain back as well.) GCL (talk) 01:25, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Question on Joshi

message: Joshi has responded strongly to Daniel Jose Older's call for the World Fantasy Award
to be changed, and the issue has received coverage: however, aside from the Salon.com piece, most of the coverage is in blogs, so I didn't list them in the article. However,
Joshi's criticisms of the demand to change the award are here:
http://www.stjoshi.org/news.html
Older's response is here:
http://ghoststar.net/blog/on-butler-and-lovecraft
There's a Tor.com blog post on the controversy here:
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2014/08/should-the-world-fantasy-award-be-changed
Novelist David Nickle has a post on the issue here:
http://davidnickle.blogspot.ie/2014/08/dont-mention-war-some-thoughts-on-hp.html
As does Horror historian Jason Colavito :
http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/s-t-joshi-people-who-arent-famous-have-no-right-to-criticize-lovecraft-for-racism
176.61.97.121 (talk) 21:45, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Joshi and the World Fantasy Award controversy 

message: The vast amount of content in this article appears to be listing after listing of everything the subject has written. It should be paired down to notable or selected works. Articles aren't meant to promote or detail everything a writer has written. Ifnord (talk) 20:54, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia isn't a directory of publications 

message: Hi, I'm an undergraduate at Texas A&M and one of my class projects is to edit a page on Wikipedia. I'm hoping to improve my editing skills while also improving this page. I noticed this page broke a Wikipedia rule so my major goal is to bring the page into accordance with Wikipedia rules.Jess6452 (talk) 13:50, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Editor 

message: Joshi's friends—or fans—keep adding promotional material to his article. They have been doing so for over ten years. ―Susmuffin Talk 08:43, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  COI tag (July 2021)