Lyrica to buy John writes to Mort Young, a reporter for the now defunct New York Journal-American, whose book UFO: Top Secret was to come out the next year. John hopes the “triumvirate” of the two of them and John Fuller “can succeed in breaking this case wide open.” The Mrs. Larson he mentions is June Larson, who sent him many UFO clippings.
I started this blog ten years ago; the first post was on September 6, 2009, a few months after John died. As a postscript, here’s a note he sent me in 1991, not long after we met, after seeing me perform a set at Caroline’s Comedy Club in NYC. Keep reading his books, Keel fans!
Doug,
Congratulations and thanks for continuing this blog for over 10 years now.
When you got that note from John, were you familiar at all with his background and interests? And how did your friendship grow from there?
Comment by Marsh — September 10, 2019 @ 11:16 am
Marsh — I’d met John through our mutual friend Ben Robinson. Somebody I knew at Interview magazine wanted to do an article on séances, and Ben suggested John might know where she could find one. He later came to one of my shows, and wrote that note. I hadn’t read any of John’s work when I met him, but I’d read Fort, and so soon started going to meetings of the NY Fortean Society. So, that’s how I became part of John’s circle.
Comment by Doug — September 10, 2019 @ 6:00 pm
Interesting how that led to you becoming the archivist of John’s files.
Comment by Marsh — September 10, 2019 @ 7:25 pm
Life’s funny! I posted a longer account of my friendship with John here: http://www.johnkeel.com/?p=712
Comment by Doug — September 12, 2019 @ 9:03 am
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