I mean, I’m the only guy in North America who teaches Truman Capote
....what? Surely this is not possible.
I've got two words that are going to make all the pain go away. Miniature Golf.
Mayor ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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."
Dana - Sep 26, 2013 10:57:09 am PDT #21458 of 28370
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Amy - Sep 26, 2013 10:59:31 am PDT #21459 of 28370
Because books.
Important conversations are always held in French, of course.
I hate this guy a little more every day.
Jesse - Sep 26, 2013 11:01:58 am PDT #21460 of 28370
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
[The guy from his publisher] was concerned that this was going to affect the general climate around the book, that some women might not like the book if they think that that’s my policy. And that’s one of the reasons that I’m apologizing. Normally I actually wouldn’t.
Jessica - Sep 26, 2013 11:02:55 am PDT #21461 of 28370
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
"This was an interview I gave sort of over the shoulder. I was having a conversation, in French, with a colleague while this young woman was doing this interview. So these were very much tossed-off remarks."
"This is what comes out of my mouth when I don't have time to filter myself. Had I been paying attention to the young woman I'd agreed to let interview me, I surely would have pretended not to be such an assface."
Jessica - Sep 26, 2013 11:05:41 am PDT #21462 of 28370
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Also:
I think anybody who teaches Truman Capote cannot be attacked for being an anti-anything.
I'm just gonna let that one stand on its own.
Kate P. - Sep 26, 2013 11:27:12 am PDT #21463 of 28370
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
And this is a young woman who kind of wanted to make a little name for herself, or something, because when I said “real heterosexual guys” I’m talking about Scott Fitzgerald [and] Scott Fitzgerald was not what you’d call a real guy’s guy, a real heterosexual guy. Part of Scott Fitzgerald’s charm is in his feminine sensibility. But then this noise happened.
"How dare this uppity little lady report the words I actually said!"
Hil R. - Sep 26, 2013 11:30:40 am PDT #21464 of 28370
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I liked this response: [link]
Fred Pete - Sep 26, 2013 12:01:47 pm PDT #21465 of 28370
Ann, that's a ferret.
Truman Capote was many things. A "real heterosexual guy" was not one of them.
Amy - Sep 26, 2013 12:04:15 pm PDT #21466 of 28370
Because books.
Snerk.
meara - Sep 26, 2013 12:09:59 pm PDT #21467 of 28370
I think that was his point though--if he teaches Truman Capote, of all people, SURELY he is not a bad person! Because only a good person would deign to teach a writer like THAT.