There just wasn't enough time with these two on the radio. So I sent them each questions and they each generously responded. Jincy Willett.... Barbara DeMarco-Barrett: On the show, you'd mentioned an author you just read and loved. Farrell? Book was...? Jincy Willett: The title is The Siege of Krishnapur , by J.G. Farrell. It won the Booker Prize in 1973. It's about the Sepoy Rebellion, p.o.v. clueless...
He never graduated high school. He laid brick and cinder blocks for a living. Sometimes he pointed out houses and other buildings he had worked on. He used to tell me, "I worked hard, very hard." He started reading seriously as a young boy. He knew a lot about history and geography. When I knew him he read mainly fiction. He liked most kinds of popular novels but especially ones that were...
Gore Vidal wins the revitalized Davis Cup for making statements only an asshole is capable of. In defense of recently imprisoned Roman Polanski, the fat bastard author had this to say... “Look, am I going to sit and weep every time a young hooker feels as though she’s been taken advantage of?” and “The media can’t get anything straight. Plus, there’s usually an anti-Semitic...
Like many writers I go through periods of wondering whether I’m not really a complete fraud – not least when, as now, I’m in the middle of a prolonged dry spell. In those circumstances it’s comforting to run one’s finger along a row of spines and remind oneself: “ I did that!” But it’s difficult for that thought not to be followed closely by another:...
With permission, I am republishing the post Smithsonian Urban Legends written by Jennie Weber. I think it is interesting and worth publishing again. ----------- Smithsonian Magazine had an article on urban myths (to refute) them recently. My personal favorite: Myth #8: There is a subterranean archive center underneath the National Mall. Fact: The Smithsonian’s storage facilities are mostly located...
The woman at the heart of the Roman Polanski rape case has spoken, and once again, she’s explicitly asked for the charges against the director to be dropped. In the statemen t filed by her attorney Lawrence Silver on Friday, the woman said that she has received “close to 500 phone calls from media as far as Germany, Israel and Japan." She’s received invitations to appear on...
A clergy abuse victim group is calling for a boycott after Gore Vidal called film director Roman Polanski's 13-year-old rape victim a "hooker." "People...
Typical: So you have this wacko right.... "Secret Service Spokesman Ed Donovan tells CBS News that an employee of a private security firm was alleged to have made threatening comments against President Obama yesterday. The employee denies it. But nevertheless, he was taken into custody -- charged with local violation of terrorist threat laws by police from the Port Authority of New York &...
These raging aging Queens like Gore Vidal never go away, do they? Vidal, of whom was called "a queer," by the late great William F. Buckley ( transcript here and video here ) is talking to The Atlantic : Atlantic : You said earlier this month that you now wish you had supported Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries instead of Barack Obama. You said that she would make a better president....
Gore Vidal : Thirteen-year-old Roman Polanski rape victim was a 'hooker' Liberals are just too precious for words. http://feeds.feedburner.com/ CurmudgeonlySkeptical
Ok, so this is more like a Saturday Femme Fatale - but I didn't want to let anyone down who is looking for the most interesting links in the feminist sphere from the past week. Without further delay, here's this week's list: Oldies do it too: Why shouldn't the over-50s have love lives - and talk about them? (Daily Mail) What women's lib? 70 percent of Americans think women should take spouse's name...
By Michael J.W. Stickings Of all the Hollywood and Hollywood-ish celebrities who have come out in defence of Roman Polanski since the director's arrest in Switzerland last month, Gore Vidal is without question the most reprehensible. Or, at least, his defence is the most reprehensible of all the defences that have emerged so far: Author Gore Vidal says he refuses to feel any sympathy for Roman Polanski’s...
Posted by guest blogger Locutisprime. That's right....Barack Obama is too smart for us and Americans are too dumb and under educated for their own good. Which is the only thing that Gore Vidal said in this entire interview that was...
Nevermind that being the victim of anti-Semitism doesn’t automatically make you not a rapist, (thanks Melissa), let’s take a look at some of this man’s philosemitic work, shall we? Vidal’s much-noted distaste for Jews and Judaism comes through most clearly in three essays written from 1970 to 1981. It is rooted in a standard Nietzschean genealogy [...]
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