Honestly I somehow get Franzen and Safran Froer mixed up sometimes, which makes sense, they’re both enormous assholes. I’ll never get over Safran Froer leaving his wife because Natalie Portman deigned to write him like, a single email.

Once again, it needs to be pointed out that in the real world, there is one and only one superpower: compound interest.

That guy's head is absolutely buried up his own ass.

“ if you put the Oprah decal on a book, it means men will be less inclined to read it.”

Yeah, Shakespeare couldn’t write a joke either.

I worked in a bookstore during one of Sparks’s book tours, and it was truly a singular experience. When I got home that night and told my husband the things Sparks said, he blinked, blinked again, said, “Are you describing a real person, a human?” But now the WORLD knows who Sparks really is, and that gives me such…

Feast your eyes.

EURIPIDES? Lmaooooo 

Lol, right? I worked at a restaurant that got a so-so review that was prominently featured in The New York times. The owner was hurt the woman didn’t give a better review of the food. I could understand that. Why was this quote from a nobody at a small school so hurtful? 

You cannot seriously be serious.

How the fuck is he ANY different than Danielle Steele? They both write about privileged white people who have terrible communication skills and only communicate via grand gestures that are really stalker tendencies!

I find his notion hilarious because my MIL is a Sparks fan would never dare pick up Hemingway or Shakespeare. She’s about as anti-intellectual as you can get.

Romance and women’s fiction is dismissed by the literary community (although sometimes not if they are written by men).

Baba! How have you been? I think of you often. We don’t see enough of you around these parts

Me too! It’s just delightful. I can’t believe that in reality he is actually WAY WORSE than I could have ever imagined him to be.

Oh my goddess I am howling with laughter, can barely breathe! 

I feel like he’s the kind of man who goes to therapy just to talk about how attacked he is for his genius and his poor therapist is sitting there listening and thinking ‘well, you’re obviously never going to get anything out of this but your checks still clear, so...’

You’re right. This shit shoulda been handled a long time ago. But it wasn’t. So here we are. I watched snippets here and there and Schiff & Co. seemed to be keeping the story clear for us peasants in the bleachers. While predictably the rightists babbled bullshit.

Lololol, this sub thread about Nicholas Sparks is making my day.