{"id":282,"date":"2016-08-17T21:17:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T21:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/?p=282"},"modified":"2016-08-17T21:17:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T21:17:30","slug":"charlie-kraffts-lovecraft-award-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/charlie-kraffts-lovecraft-award-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Krafft&#8217;s Lovecraft Award Is a Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Hyperallergic.com:<br \/>\nAs some people on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Richard_Kadrey\/status\/666081017489330178\" target=\"_blank\">have noticed<\/a>, an organization called Counter-Currents Publishing has launched an \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.counter-currents.com\/2015\/11\/the-counter-currents-h-p-lovecraft-prize-for-literature\/\" target=\"_blank\">H. P. Lovecraft Prize for Literature<\/a>.\u201d The accolade\u00a0is, in part, a rebuttal to the World Fantasy Awards\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/arts\/avowed-racist-h-p-lovecraft-no-longer-representing-world-fantasy-award\" target=\"_blank\">recent decision<\/a> to stop using\u00a0a sculpted\u00a0likeness of\u00a0the author\u00a0for\u00a0their trophy\u00a0\u2014 because although he\u2019s now a\u00a0canonized\u00a0writer of horror fiction, Lovecraft was also\u00a0an explicit racist. The Counter-Currents prize in his honor will be \u201cawarded to literary artists\u00a0of the highest caliber who transgress the boundaries of political correctness.\u201d And it will consist of \u2014 what else? \u2014 a\u00a0bust of Lovecraft, sculpted by none other than Charles Krafft.<\/p>\n<p>Read rest <a href=\"http:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/254089\/white-nationalist-artist-charles-krafft-designs-award-for-right-wing-publisher\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Hyperallergic.com: As some people on Twitter have noticed, an organization called Counter-Currents Publishing has launched an \u201cH. P. 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