“I think her importance as an American writer is just being recognized, even though she’s been called a master since the 1940s,” Gurganus said in a phone interview.Īdmired by Eudora Welty and Alice Munro among others, Spencer wrote the novels “The Snare” and “The Salt Line” and dozens of short stories, most recently for the 2014 collection “Starting Over.” She also completed a play, “For Lease or Sale,” and the memoir “Landscapes of the Heart.” Her many honors included the Rea Award and PEN/Malamud prize for lifetime achievement in short fiction, five O’Henry prizes for short stories and membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He noted that some of her work was recently chosen to become part of the nonprofit Library of America collection, which has published editions by authors including William Faulkner and Mark Twain. He described her as someone who believed in younger writers and encouraged them to achieve their promise. “She’s not only an inspiring person on the page, but an amazing friend,” said North Carolina-based novelist Allan Gurganus, whose friendship with Spencer began in 1972 when she wrote to congratulate him on a short story he published early in his career.
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He's supposedly a Watch Captain of the City of the White Wolf. Beyond that it's anybody's guess.Ī certain "Captain Scharlach of Middenheim" was named by cultists sent by the Hand to murder Wigmar in Ubersreik. The cult's goals are not clear, but it seems concerned with material wealth (as exemplified by Kastor's false inheritance) and power (access to/control over the Elector-Countess of Nuln). The cult uses magic (chaos sorcery) when necessary but seems to work primarily throguh more mundane means. His responsibilities including procuring for the cult what it needed - including living humans (presumably for human sacrifice, although this has never been proven). Senior members are known as 'Magisters' and Kastor carried the title 'magister impedimentae' while in Nuln. And the cell that came after Wigmar in Übersreik were not locals. For example, there didn't seem to be any Hand cultists in Bögenhafen. It's not universal, however, lacking followers in smaller towns. 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