I predict that if that kid from Alabama gets a book published it will be 80% or more the work of the editor.
... who will be a hopeless alcoholic by the end of the nightmare.
I don't know that I agree with your characterization of the NY Mag author as unoffended by women trading sexuality for status. I read that as her documenting that some women were willing to embrace that trade, and that the Young Literary Men were, in spite of her expectations (since nerdy high-school boys often disparage sex-for-status when the type of status valued is unavailable to them) enthusiastically embracing this state of affairs. Perhaps she thought that Young Literary Men would want Young Literary Women and engage with them on a cerebral level--instead, she saw men leveraging their place in an alternative hierarchy to obtain the same sort of generically desirable youthful women who they probably disparaged, full of sour grapes, when they got turned down for the prom.
Remarking on the sexist tendencies of otherwise-enlightened left-wing intellectuals is rather old hat, but she might still have been surprised--she is very young.
Hmm... perhaps. I guess I see a difference between "look at these sleazeballs" and "look at these guys who could never get laid in high school being sleazeballs."
Some people don't get laid in high school and learn from the experience. Others simply wait.
I also don't understand the appeal of Gaddis, but I admit that this may be a failing. Maybe the writing is good but the stuff the writing is about just does not sound that interesting.
People I respect and love like Gaddis. I did not--at least the five pages I read. Perhaps this too is a failing of mine. It was actually the writing that threw me off, and I am of the inclination to find masterful prose styling attractive enough to compensate for banal plot. Unfortunately, I just found it merely pretentious and insufferable. Perhaps I will give it another shot, but the fact that they talk about his work like this makes me think that I am right in my suspicion that it is merely pretentious and insufferable.
I go to parties with coke all the time. Sometimes they have diet coke instead, and sometimes they have pepsi. But coke is actually pretty common.
Oh, wait a minute....
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