I liked this response: [link]
I battle evil. But I don't really win. The bad keeps coming back and getting stronger. Like that kid in the story, the boy that stuck his finger in the duck.
Buffy ,'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."
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
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.
Kate P. - Sep 26, 2013 5:15:54 pm PDT #21472 of 28370
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
It also seems to be the most canonical -- for most people, if you've read one thing by Capote, it's probably In Cold Blood.
erikaj - Sep 27, 2013 5:40:06 am PDT #21473 of 28370
Always Anti-fascist!
wrod.