Howard Howard's Defensive Place in the American Literary Pantheon

"I don't want to try to like throw Lovecraft. All I'm doing is writing a defensive Howard's place in sort of the American literary pantheon," he says. "What it all comes down to ultimately for me is that everybody knows who Conan the barbarians, you know what I mean?" He adds: "The fact is that Howard propelled the character into this cultural mythos layer where people know him purely by growing up in the US."

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