Those Chelsea House books, intimidating and colorful, impressed me in high school, and his categorical dismissals I emulated in my early years.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 October 2019 20:01 (four years ago) link
apart from the naomi wolf thing the accusations of harassment et al have been pretty lacking in specifics, unless calling everyone "my dear" counts
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 17 October 2019 20:02 (four years ago) link
thats a really nice piece alfred
the naomi wolf thing is a legit reason to think he sucks, but in the extremely limited sample of people I follow on social media, the negative comments from the hot take brigade were mostly all variations of "finally we're free of this suffocating promoter of Dead White Men", as if he had been actively going around burning other people's manuscripts. So dumb.
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Thursday, 17 October 2019 20:55 (four years ago) link
a friend who studied with him (and is/was an attractive woman) said he was a wonderful teacher, funny and unusually kind
― mookieproof, Thursday, 17 October 2019 22:01 (four years ago) link
umm
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 17 October 2019 22:57 (four years ago) link
OK wow i just checked in on what people are saying on twitter.
― treeship., Wednesday, 23 October 2019 22:06 (four years ago) link