My solution: don’t address it. Just make a Bond flick. People will keep up.

James Gunn is over at DC giggling and shrugging his shoulders over what “counts” and audiences are totally fine with it. Canon doesn’t actually matter to general audiences!

To correct myself: he either said “saddest” or “most dispiriting,” both of which still work but aren’t nearly as funny in this context.

Save it for a rainy day. It’s very entertaining.

Check out this clip of him and Norman Mailer on the Dick Cavett show: youtu.be/Nb1w_qoioOk?...

He didn’t! He went to war and published his first novel just after he got back. But he was part of the social and literary world of the day, so he knew basically everyone. (Example: he was friends with Christopher Isherwood. MYRA BRECKINRIDGE is dedicated to Isherwood).

A quick glance at the Parini bio suggests that Vidal disliked Oates because of a review she wrote of LINCOLN. Parini also says Vidal secretly read and enjoyed a book of her essays.

Call me a lib or whatever, but I’ve long had the conviction that the government exists, insofar as it should exist, to do things for its citizens.

(Full confession: I do cite the page to pull out a term in my article on “S-Town,” so I’m not exactly without sin)

(Also the idea that you need one “central character” for a narrative is very silly)

I’m genuinely glad that Apple is out there just pouring buckets of money into these odd SF projects.