This is true. Thanks, Deb. And thanks to Betsy, who spotted the market for me. I had to dump a lot of stuff I really cared about, but I got to keep the expletives. Fuck, yes.
Ah, yes, of course. The gypsies, they gave you your soul. The gypsies are filthy people. Ptui! We shall speak of them no more.
Ilona Costa Bianchi ,'The Girl in Question'
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erikaj - Dec 31, 2004 8:04:48 am PST #8967 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Amy - Dec 31, 2004 8:06:51 am PST #8968 of 10001
Because books.
erika, that piece absolutely rocked. You covered so much, and with so much honesty -- I loved it. Go you! An you should definitely make a Press announcement, or at least something in Beep Me.
t /my two cents
erikaj - Dec 31, 2004 8:14:47 am PST #8969 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I believe very firmly in the right to mock my pain before anyone else gets to. It's a thing, AmyLiz. Thanks for the compliments. I might put up an announcement. Might as well. I've already admitted that Crush Guy was right about it being publishable and stuff after I said "Not in a Million years." Yep, I've got my fingers on all the pulses.
Karl - Dec 31, 2004 9:40:32 am PST #8970 of 10001
I adore all you motherfuckers so much -- PMM.
Oh, Erika. Laughing and crying, indeed. Yes, yes, this should be announced far and wide.
And I want all the parts you had to dump. Because this is amazing, and I want more.
WildDemon Cornelius - Dec 31, 2004 9:48:11 am PST #8971 of 10001
Take your fingers off it, don't you dare touch it, you know it don't belong to you, to you...
Ah, Harold Bloom. You know, I actually really enjoyed the guy's books on Shakespeare and some of his stuff in the Modern Critical Views series, I just wish he didn't feel this ridiculous urge to run around blathering against anything he didn't like, i.e. Harry Potter, Stephen King's National Book Award (which led to a rant in which he attacked everything he doesn't like in no particular order, including apparently every female writer ever), and apparently Slam Poetry. Is he aware that he looks like a hateful snob with nothing better to do than whine at the rest of us from his Ivory Tower?
He does own a stuffed wombat that belonged to Dante Gabriel Rossetti though, so I can't quite hate him.
erikaj - Dec 31, 2004 10:03:41 am PST #8972 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
You got it, Karl, babe...insent momentarily, bunky.ETA, I read "Closing of American Mind" for school...what a dick.
deborah grabien - Dec 31, 2004 10:18:06 am PST #8973 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
WDC, I don't even do conversations about crit anymore, and luckily, we're stopped doing them in here - they're mostly in Literary and probably in the Book Club thread, although I don't know about that one.
Zenkitty - Dec 31, 2004 10:48:39 am PST #8974 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
erika, wonderful essay. I want to see the parts you dumped, too.
erikaj - Dec 31, 2004 10:58:50 am PST #8975 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Heartrending decisions, all of them. It's long, or I would post...I'll send though. This prose was tighter(which, ok, good thing) but in some cases I think some of the angles got lost, and I like the angles.Like Simon likes gritty, urban, carrots. I can't believe they thought I made myself too cool in that version. I was totally the butt. A man has to throw up so he can't sleep with me. Yep, all about the glamour. Whatever.
Zenkitty - Dec 31, 2004 11:16:02 am PST #8976 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I thought you were cool...
Carrots are gritty? Now I'm picturing Bugs Bunny as Sam Spade.