but I'm all about Infinite Summer today, because New York will eventually dry out. I just started a Goodreads group for it, so if you use the site and are planning to tackle the book, come on over. Wouldn't you rather get through it with the "loving" "support" of the Internet than by yourself?
Plus, reading a Big Book this summer will leave you more to show than, say, trying to find out if Neil Gaiman is really dating half of the Dresden Dolls, a piece of gossip I certainly did not just spend 10 minutes trying to verify.
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The Dresden Dolls?!?! Wow. Also, am I the only straight man who owns one of their cds? Just asking.
I doubt the rumor about Neil Gaiman is true; the last I heard he was still living in a small town in Wisconsin near Minneapolis/St. Paul with his wife and kids. I think of that as being such a critical aspect of his personality that its hard to imagine him with anyone else - sort of like imagining that Bill Cosby having an affair with a starlet or something.
Re. Dresden Dolls: pretty sure you're not the only one, but I'm not at liberty to name names.
If the rumors are true, how does that change the way you see Gaiman's books? Would it make you less likely to read his next one, or inclined to look at his previous books with a critical eye? It opens up an interesting line of inquiry given that authors usually don't have their personal lives exposed or examined in the way that creators in other media do. It's possible we prefer it that way, at least until the tell-all biography comes out.
We can name my name (or at least my internet name). The Dolls are good Boston kids.
re: personal life affection interpretation: I feel like we take liberties with the term "semi-autobiographical" particularly with young authors who we presume only know how to write about themselves.(I'm looking at you, Nick McDonnell).
For what it's worth to the discussion, Neil Gaiman is divorced.
8: I read "Twelve" hoping to find out it was overrated, so I can't really give it an unbiased take now. But it strikes me that McDonnell could have insulated himself against such criticism by writing fantasy. Of course, then he probably wouldn't have gotten the attention he did, so it's a toss-up.
I hadn't heard that he was divorced - that obviously makes it okay for him to be dating another woman. Because his writing is fantastical instead of realistic, I don't read a lot of his biography into his writing, as opposed to, say, Jonathan Lethem or Jonathan Franzen. But that's another story altogether I guess.
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