I Think You're Totally Wrong by David Shields

Author:David Shields [Shields, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-385-35195-9
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2015-01-06T05:00:00+00:00

CALEB: I was disappointed when you refused to offer wholehearted praise of my rape novel.

DAVID: That was an awkward situation.

CALEB: How could it have hurt you? You wrote, more or less, “I’ve just written Reality Hunger, a manifesto partly in dispraise of traditional novels, so I probably shouldn’t blurb traditional novels.”

DAVID: What happened in the meantime was the Coetzee mess. I was thinking, Coetzee’s acting rather high-handed toward me. I’m not going to act high-handed toward Caleb.

CALEB: I was pissed. Then I got your permission.

DAVID: What’d I say?

CALEB: You said not to call your former teacher names, and that I could use any praise you’d written. My novel didn’t deserve a glowing blurb, but still—

DAVID: What did you call me, do you remember?

CALEB: I said, “You’re really a dork.”

DAVID: Third-grade stuff.

CALEB: You immediately responded with “What do you mean?” Then, a few minutes later, you wrote, “You’re wildly overreacting.”

DAVID: I think that’s true, don’t you?

CALEB: Probably.

DAVID: I forget what I said.

CALEB: You’d written about my book, “Your book is gorgeously written and the ending is quite powerful, but unfortunately I can’t blurb it because I have a book coming out that—”

DAVID: That makes sense, to me, actually; after Reality Hunger—

CALEB: Fair enough.

DAVID: Well, I liked your novel.

CALEB: Apparently not enough.

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