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“Somebody pops out of the box and says, ‘You’re a bunch of idiots!’ Boom. But the thing that gets me is when the good things are just so simple sometimes. My wife’s very much younger than I. When we were first courting, I had to hear a lot of pop music, because she was an eighteen-year-old. But after a few years, she scorned it and listened to Monteverdi.”
william h gass

anyway don’t read authors’ interviews folks
Aug 06, 2025 08:42AM

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Left Coast Justin Gross.


message 2: by nastya (new)

nastya it's a bit crazy how he doesn't even see anything weird in this and just says these things. true, he is a dinosaur who was born in 20s. and yes, this is as old as time, I mean Genji from tale of Genji picked a 10 year old he liked to raise and shape her into the woman he wanted, it's nothing new.
I am currently reading his book and at first I loved it, so much so that I wanted to find out more about him. The book and the chatracter are snobby but I thought he was making fun of it for a second. After reading his interview, god he is such an unpleasant hateful full of himself specimen, and now that I know it, I can't unsee it in the book I am reading. Every sentence is brimming with misanthropy and unpleasantness. It becomes a very unpleasant experience.


Left Coast Justin Ignorance is bliss sometimes!


message 4: by nastya (new)

nastya I wanted to say always, but then sometimes I don't like a book and adore the person who wrote it, and it makes me try harder. I loved Philip Pullman in his interviews, and I adored Eudora Welty in the only interview I've seen with her, so I want to find a way to love her short story collection now! But most of the times, yeah, ignorance is bliss


message 5: by Adina (new)

Adina I make it a point to avoid finding out anything personal about the authors I love.


message 6: by Katia (new)

Katia N I hope you ve learned your lesson, Nast’. I would add never read Gr reviews either:-)


message 7: by Katia (new)

Katia N That is before finishing the book:-)


message 8: by nastya (new)

nastya I was just curious to find out what he thought about Pynchon, Kat', I swear! I did not want this! 😩


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