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how do you really feel?

October 29, 2008 · Leave a Comment

the somewhat prickly and definitely private Annie Proulx is interviewed by the Los Angeles Times.  Proulx admits that with all the unsolicited feedback after the movie “Brokeback Mountain,” she regrets writing the story.  apparently, men write her with new takes on the story, something that Proulx interprets as them thinking “that just because they are men, they understand men better than I do.”  of her 3 marriages and subsequent divorces, Proulx says “You can like ‘em, but it doesn’t mean you have to sample every single one.”  she sounds like a great person to sit down and have a beer with.

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Categories: Bestsellers · Books to Film · authors

furthering their reputation

October 29, 2008 · Leave a Comment

the committee for the Nobel Prize for literature is seriously losing some ground.  with literary snobbery and possible fixed betting, it is now known that the judges assign nicknames to the nominees.  sadly, such nicknames as ‘Chateaubriand’ for this year’s winner Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, Dorris Lessing as ‘Little Dorrit,’ and others don’t even make sense.  i really can’t imagine this very highbrow group attempting to come up with catchy nicknames, how awkward….

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Categories: Awards · authors