![]() In no particular order, then, here are my top ten pieces of literary gossip Dan Brown’s Friesian love horseĭa Vinci Code author Dan Brown and his wife had an extremely acrimonious divorce, after he cheated on her with her Dutch horse-trainer, giving the horse-trainer a $350,000 Friesian horse named LimiTed Edition as a romantic gift. I don’t want to hear about Virginia Woolf’s horrible polycule, or Anaïs Nin fucking her own estranged father.Īnyway, the purpose of gossip isn’t to depress. ![]() ![]() That Dickens, Eliot and Fitzgerald spent staggering amounts of time trying to send their wives to asylums. We all know David Foster Wallace threw tables. Nasty biographical revelations don’t constitute gossip. Who cares who Phillip Larkin cheated on his girlfriend with, besides presumably Phillip Larkin’s girlfriend. Blistering correspondences between great men of letters? Boring. Sadly, in the literary world, most gossip either falls into one of two categories: boring, or depressing. There’s nothing better than a good piece of gossip. These rare historical morsels are the exceptions. Most literary gossip does nothing for Hera Lindsay Bird. ![]()
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