He is the biggest jackass. I don't think he likes any writer who isn't a White man, and he particularly likes heterosexual White men. He specifies this.
At least he is honest in his narrow guidelines for good art.
Lorne: You know what they say about people who need people. Connor: They're the luckiest people in the world. Lorne: You been sneaking peeks at my Streisand collection again, Kiddo? Connor: Just kinda popped out.
'Time Bomb'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
le nubian - Sep 25, 2013 10:42:29 am PDT #21447 of 28370
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Strix - Sep 25, 2013 4:09:53 pm PDT #21448 of 28370
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I like how he brags about reading Proust and Dostoyevsky 2-4 times. WHUT? I can't think of a singe book I love (his criterion for teaching) that I haven't read at least 10 times.
I think he's the kind of prof whose reading list would make me want to stab him in the face.
Amy - Sep 25, 2013 4:16:53 pm PDT #21449 of 28370
Because books.
I don't know who this Peter Damien guy is, but someone in my feed retweeted this (which I then retweeted, too):
Peter Damien @peterdamien
"You wouldn't be upset about David Gilmour if you weren't on the internet."
"NOT NOW, FRANZEN."
le nubian - Sep 25, 2013 4:47:10 pm PDT #21450 of 28370
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
hilarious.
meara - Sep 25, 2013 7:23:21 pm PDT #21451 of 28370
Ok, just read Eleanor and Park. SO GOOD! But the ending made me want to cry. I mean, the whole book kind of did. But in a good way too.
hippocampus - Sep 26, 2013 4:29:51 am PDT #21452 of 28370
not your mom's socks.
I have E&P on my bookpile. So looking forward to reading it.
Not literary, but more literary-adjacent. I put up a post about author visits to schools today [link] - having been on both sides, and having sat through some doozies, I thought it would be interesting to discuss things that work best. If buffista writers and teachers and librarian warlords and former students and readers and buffistas would be interested in weighing in, I would love it.
Vonnie K - Sep 26, 2013 9:00:42 am PDT #21453 of 28370
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Jesse - Sep 26, 2013 9:20:09 am PDT #21454 of 28370
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ha!
Amy - Sep 26, 2013 9:22:37 am PDT #21455 of 28370
Because books.
I LOVE the clueless guy in the comments.
hippocampus - Sep 26, 2013 10:10:53 am PDT #21456 of 28370
not your mom's socks.
I love that.