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.
You do well to flee, townspeople! I will pillage your lands and dwellings! I will burn your crops and make merry sport with your more attractive daughters! Ha ha ha! Mark my words! Ooh! Ale! I smell delicious ale!
Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'
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."
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
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.
Hil R. - Sep 26, 2013 12:12:36 pm PDT #21468 of 28370
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I would be willing to bet just about anything that the Capote work he teaches is In Cold Blood.
Kat - Sep 26, 2013 4:31:35 pm PDT #21469 of 28370
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Hmm.... why? Is In Cold Blood somehow less gay? I'm confused by that comment.
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.
I know. Me too. I wonder if the quasi ambiguity of the ending would drive my students batty?
Amy - Sep 26, 2013 5:03:19 pm PDT #21470 of 28370
Because books.
I finished Please Ignore Vera Dietz (which everyone should read right now), and will be going back to Eleanor and Park later tonight. I needed some fluffy Project Runway in between.
Hil R. - Sep 26, 2013 5:13:57 pm PDT #21471 of 28370
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Hmm.... why? Is In Cold Blood somehow less gay? I'm confused by that comment.
It just seems, of the Capote I've read, to be a more "manly" book, somehow. Like, I really couldn't see this guy teaching Breakfast at Tiffany's.