Mr Oliver is a fascinating gentleman. I could listen to him for hours. I have just purchased my first Reggie Oliver book and am eager to start reading it. Thank you RB Russell for filming this wonderful video.
Hi David, nice to see you here. If I am not mistaken, I have mostly seen you in "Fountain pen" channels, like ODE (Paulo) It's great to know people have similar tastes and hobbies sometimes!
@@humanfirst11 Yes, you are correct. I often post comments about fountain pens. Book collecting is another interest of mine. Nice to read your message.
Thank you so much for this wonderful interview with Mr. Reggie Oliver. I am only now reading his first collection of strange stories, TDoCV, and it is so superb that even before finishing I am here trying to learn more of this man. These stories are so wonderfully creepy and beautifully, carefully, written ; he is a master at structure even in this first volume. I am a reader primarily of horror and supernatural work, favorites including Laird Barron, Thomas Ligotti, Michael Shea, Brian Evansen, Poe, and Lovecraft. Halfway through these stories I've ordered the next 2 collections in paperback from Tartarus Press. I am finding Oliver's style so comfortable, refined, and his stories to be so imaginative and unsettling in ways that discard histrionics. Now, this charming interview with him, as well - thank you for adding to my recent and overdue discovery of his work.
I love this talk and like the idea of writers minds being different from other people's as a rule. Because writers minds are like lumber rooms, which most people would discard but which writers utilize eventually!! Wonderful talk Reggie it is really fascinating to hear you talk about your writing and your love of books. You are an inspiration to all of us budding creative writers.
This is a fascinating insight into a book collector's collection and his relevant ideas. Reggie is well spoken and has a nice easy going persona. Love the cat who seems to enjoy being near the books to! A little like my cats! Best Wishes, Tony.
Totally enjoyable interview. Guess I'm a "frustrated" writer because some of things Mr. Oliver spoke about I also feel & understand. Have written 2 screenplays, so far stuck in oblivion on my shelf & currently writing a history of my family based upon my mother's diary form 1939 that I found right after she died in 2011. Thanks for this video! It's inspiring & I'm going to get back to work! :D
William Sansom has been my absolute favorite writer of short stories for some time now, and I've been looking quite unsuccessfully for detailed biographical information about him. Though obviously the small anecdote provided does not quite satisfy that need, it was nonetheless a very pleasant surprise indeed to see and hear his letter, which displayed perfectly the utterly strange personality the man must have possessed. Thank you.
Reggie's out of print and limited edition volumes are expensive, but the two paperbacks listed in the discription (with links) are much more reasonably priced.
I only know of him through his books appearing on the secondary market--copies inscribed to him by famous authors coming up for sale. I believe he lived in Beverly Hills, and was presumably quite wealthy.
Is Reggie Oliver associated with Titan Books? I'd like to send him two books for his collection, poems by Benjmain Saltman, and his memoir, both in hardcover. I published them. The first in 1992 and again in 2016, an extended edition, and the memoir in 2018, which Ben Saltman sent to me in 1998. Little did I know I had the only existing completed manuscript of the book. His late wife, Helen Saltman, allowed me to publish it, since no one seem interested in publishing a memoir by a dead poet, though he was well-known among poets such as W.S. Merwin and William Stafford, and many others. He had also won two NEA Fellowships during his life. Merwin and poet Reed Whittemore wrote the blurbs the for collection of poems and the memoir. Both are gone now, sadly. Saltman died in 1999 of leukemia. He was my poetry teacher at CSUN in Los Angeles, and a long time friend. Nicholas Campbell
Reggie Oliver is rather pretentious and fits the American stereotype of the stuffy English academic. There is very little about his book collection in this tour, everything is about him, his works and those of his family and relatives. He’d have done well to have followed that young oarsman’s lead.
I come back and watch this every few years. I find it not only fascinating, but also relaxing.
I love all of these bibliophile documentaries on your channel and the people you choose to film are always oddly fascinating. Please keep making them!
Mr Oliver is a fascinating gentleman. I could listen to him for hours. I have just purchased my first Reggie Oliver book and am eager to start reading it. Thank you RB Russell for filming this wonderful video.
Hi David, nice to see you here. If I am not mistaken, I have mostly seen you in "Fountain pen" channels, like ODE (Paulo)
It's great to know people have similar tastes and hobbies sometimes!
@@humanfirst11 Yes, you are correct. I often post comments about fountain pens. Book collecting is another interest of mine. Nice to read your message.
Thank you so much for this wonderful interview with Mr. Reggie Oliver. I am only now reading his first collection of strange stories, TDoCV, and it is so superb that even before finishing I am here trying to learn more of this man.
These stories are so wonderfully creepy and beautifully, carefully, written ; he is a master at structure even in this first volume. I am a reader primarily of horror and supernatural work, favorites including Laird Barron, Thomas Ligotti, Michael Shea, Brian Evansen, Poe, and Lovecraft. Halfway through these stories I've ordered the next 2 collections in paperback from Tartarus Press. I am finding Oliver's style so comfortable, refined, and his stories to be so imaginative and unsettling in ways that discard histrionics. Now, this charming interview with him, as well - thank you for adding to my recent and overdue discovery of his work.
Fanatastic interview! Reggie Oliver is one of those writers that makes me want to be a better reader. Thank you for sharing this.
Absolutely fascinating interview! Many thanks to Ray and Reggie, and also to the internet, for making such things possible.
I love this talk and like the idea of writers minds being different from other people's as a rule. Because writers minds are like lumber rooms, which most people would discard but which writers utilize eventually!! Wonderful talk Reggie it is really fascinating to hear you talk about your writing and your love of books. You are an inspiration to all of us budding creative writers.
Great insights, brilliantly dry wit. met Mr Oliver at a BFS con many years ago. A gent.
This is a fascinating insight into a book collector's collection and his relevant ideas. Reggie is well spoken and has a nice easy going persona. Love the cat who seems to enjoy being near the books to! A little like my cats!
Best Wishes,
Tony.
I love this man's, cadence of words.....
...Old Mister Longman was proved very wrong
Reggie s one of the truly finest short stories writing today -- stylish -- intelligent -- love his voice!
Very fascinating video!
Totally enjoyable interview. Guess I'm a "frustrated" writer because some of things Mr. Oliver spoke about I also feel & understand. Have written 2 screenplays, so far stuck in oblivion on my shelf & currently writing a history of my family based upon my mother's diary form 1939 that I found right after she died in 2011. Thanks for this video! It's inspiring & I'm going to get back to work! :D
‘Very much in the Georgian mode, influenced by Walter de la Mare..’ love how he (justly) assumes we get all that …. What a great guy! Thank you…
Just purchased his _The Complete Symphonies of Adolph Hitler_, which I very much look forward to reading.
William Sansom has been my absolute favorite writer of short stories for some time now, and I've been looking quite unsuccessfully for detailed biographical information about him. Though obviously the small anecdote provided does not quite satisfy that need, it was nonetheless a very pleasant surprise indeed to see and hear his letter, which displayed perfectly the utterly strange personality the man must have possessed. Thank you.
Beautifully inspiring interview!
Reggie's out of print and limited edition volumes are expensive, but the two paperbacks listed in the discription (with links) are much more reasonably priced.
Book collectors and cats (8:05) go together like a horse and carriage.
He is quite interesting, but that cat is definitely wonderful.
Could you tell me something about famed book collector, Ingle Barr? He was a friend of Leonard Strong.
I only know of him through his books appearing on the secondary market--copies inscribed to him by famous authors coming up for sale. I believe he lived in Beverly Hills, and was presumably quite wealthy.
Is Reggie Oliver associated with Titan Books? I'd like to send him two books for his collection, poems by Benjmain Saltman, and his memoir, both in hardcover. I published them. The first in 1992 and again in 2016, an extended edition, and the memoir in 2018, which Ben Saltman sent to me in 1998. Little did I know I had the only existing completed manuscript of the book. His late wife, Helen Saltman, allowed me to publish it, since no one seem interested in publishing a memoir by a dead poet, though he was well-known among poets such as W.S. Merwin and William Stafford, and many others. He had also won two NEA Fellowships during his life. Merwin and poet Reed Whittemore wrote the blurbs the for collection of poems and the memoir. Both are gone now, sadly. Saltman died in 1999 of leukemia. He was my poetry teacher at CSUN in Los Angeles, and a long time friend. Nicholas Campbell
What a legend
Hi thanks for the upload. It's author not auther, sorry.
Many thanks for pointing out the typo - now corrected.
Ok, we get it, Reggie, you have little sympathy for the Christian faith. How revolutionary.
Lol, Eton, wet-bob, rowing, 1870s. Boring.
Reggie Oliver is rather pretentious and fits the American stereotype of the stuffy English academic. There is very little about his book collection in this tour, everything is about him, his works and those of his family and relatives. He’d have done well to have followed that young oarsman’s lead.
What a sanctimonious thing to say, why not go play with your smart phone or something…