I've enjoyed his novels (Summerlands, Adventures of . . . and Gents of the Road), but his short stories have underwhelmed me and I can't see what the fuss is about. Sorry to hear the work inspired by him also hits some sour notes. His essays are usually quite good, though he took down the website that had a lot of them there (the one on comics as "greasy kids stuff" was pretty rocking).
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