Pulitzer worthy
For those of you living in caves: is it cooler in there? Are there bats? Do you have wi-fi? Oh, and also: have you seen this?
It's stunning! Robert Olen Butler's wife left him to join Ted Turner's harem, despite Robert's saving her, healing her, making her whole. Ungrateful wench! Apparently, Butler sent the email to his graduate students in order to preempt the story of the breakup, well, breaking. And in doing so he has mastered a passive-aggressive masterpiece in which he repeatedly mentions how his wife felt about his Pulitzer (inferior!) her past abuse (which he helped heal!) and just for kicks her intestinal trouble (awkward).
It's yet another instance where I find myself thinking that if I wrote this as fiction it might come off as over the top. What the hell do I know? I don't have a Pulitzer.
Oh my God, Butler was on NPR today talking about it! Crazy!
How many times can he say "she had Pulitzer envy?"
Comments
This whole saga has been excruciating but fun to watch. I liked his short story from the perspective of a parakeet.
Posted by: Jesse | August 6, 2007 09:20 AM