billy bob thornton/angelina jolie of the literary world?

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(ayelet waldman is married to michael chabon)

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/27/fashion/27love.html?

― David Elinsky (David Elinsky), Sunday, 27 March 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris?

― Mayor Maynot, Sunday, 27 March 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

Well, I'm not sure if you're trying to be cryptic, but Michael Dorris committed suicide about 7-8 years ago.

― Literary nerd, Tuesday, 29 March 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

Can someone paste that article for those of us to lazy to register?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

I was going to post Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt, but I didn't want it to be contiguous with the previous, distasteful suggestion.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

martin amis/isabel fonseca?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

I always thought Chabon was gay. And look, ILB's a blog! http://slate.com/id/2115944/

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

jesus, we are a blog. and all of slate's eyes are upon us. quick, say something witty!

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

If this were I Love Film Critics, Andrew Sarris and Molly Haskell would pwn this thread.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

Well, I'm not sure if you're trying to be cryptic, but Michael Dorris committed suicide about 7-8 years ago.

Waldman is bipolar and apparently has expressed suicidal thoughts on her blog. When someone told me about this recently, I did think of Erdrich and Dorris. But this is obviously unrelated to the fantastic sex that Waldman and Chabon seem to be having.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:42 (twenty years ago)

Man, I made the classic mistake-or rather, obeyed common practice- of posting before reading the article. I take it all back.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 11:15 (twenty years ago)

If you're allowed to go back a bit Plath/Hughes probably a decent parallel. The matching glamour & glittering careers, the psychological instability, the feral machismo, the nutty philophical ideas, the incompatibility etc.

― frankiemachine, Wednesday, 30 March 2005 11:27 (twenty years ago)

There's another Chabon thread going now. He seems to be getting a lot of play, doesn't he? Around here.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

She seems like she's more of a nutbag than he does, a la Hughes/Plath. He's probably just controlling in that screwed up Jewish egotistical way, and she sounds whiney and self-absorbed in that screwy Jewish way as well. It's a particular kind of Jewish family. Moneyed, miserable and she's obviously doped up on the latest psychoactive prescription that she gets from her therapist/s of the moment.

IOW, they're made for each other.

Both sound like horrible people, but glad they found each other and aren't inflicting themselves on others.

She's mentioned having more kids.

Why? Oh and DON'T! Geez, spare the poor kids.

― Reader, Thursday, 21 April 2005 02:13 (twenty years ago)

Was Plath more of a "nutbag" than Hughes?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 21 April 2005 04:23 (twenty years ago)

because she was a worse poet that depended on desperate hysteronics, and was a boring wasp who compared her privelged suffering to A JEW KILLED IN DACHU

― anthony, Thursday, 21 April 2005 09:12 (twenty years ago)

Rockist! ;-)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 21 April 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

privelged suffering

Ha ha ha ha!

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

why is it rockist to assume that perhaps jews in death camps suffered a bit more then a white, middle class, married mother of two and that her assuming other wise is a bit over the top.

― anthony, Friday, 22 April 2005 07:00 (twenty years ago)

anthony, what exactly do you have against middle class ppl? i ask because you've used it as a put-down about a zillion times (see also "wasp," "heterosexual," "white," "protestant," "married," "mother" and other things that apparently mean you are disqualified from opening your mouth, lest you take advantage of your "privilege") and i don't see why this sort of classism is okay.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 22 April 2005 08:06 (twenty years ago)

not to mention that "daddy" is actually a very FUNNY poem, humor being an element which everyone inexplicably overlooks/downplays in plath.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 22 April 2005 08:07 (twenty years ago)

It's rockist to forbid the histrionics that have the masses lapping up Plath.

I'm not going to disagree with you that being in a death camp was worse than having a depression so severe that it made you attempt suicide at age ten, but I'd just as soon not be in either situation.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 22 April 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

maybe im just not being fair to plath

― anthony, Friday, 22 April 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

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