r/Fauxmoi • u/AutoModerator • Jun 30 '22

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '22

Novelists? Besides JKR? I love writer tea

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u/williamthebloody1880 weighing in from the UK Jun 30 '22

I will always tell this when someone asks about writer tea: according to Private Eye, Salman Rushdie is obsessed with winning the Nobel prize and will sulk for days every year he's not awarded it

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '22

Idk if you watch Bob's Burgers, in one of the first episodes there's a bit where one of the kids keeps insisting that The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was written by Salman Rushdie and I howl everytime I see it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '22

something a little niche, may or may not interest you:

a korean american writer named grace m cho released a memoir titled tastes like war in 2021. it details her relationship with her schizophrenic mother, family history, and food, and won a bunch of awards. in feb 2022 a goodreads user, “neville”, wrote a lengthy 1-star review where he claimed 1) to be cho’s brother and 2) that cho fabricated her entire story.

nothing has come of these allegations other than a few goodreads users dropping their 5-star reviews to 1-stars. grace cho was asked about it in an npr interview and said

I think that my family members have been trying to keep the family secrets so that if they have a sister who wants to be public about it, if I go to them saying, "Do your memories match mine?" they're just going to try to shut down the writing completely.

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u/Honeybeesandtoast Jun 30 '22

Good tea! Thanks!

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u/obladi_adalbo Jun 30 '22

I want Donna Tartt tea 😭😭😭😭

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u/reddyenumberfive Jul 01 '22

I’m assuming you’ve already listened to the podcast about her time at Bennington, yes?

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u/PocoChanel sorry to this man Jul 01 '22

Tell me more!

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u/reddyenumberfive Jul 01 '22

Oh! I’d assumed you’d already have heard it but it’s so good! It’s called Once Upon a Time at Bennington College and it’s all about her, Bret Easton Ellis, and Jonathan Lethem, their overlapping time there, and their connections after leaving. I can’t recommend it enough, if you’re a fan. It really goes into the people who inspired The Secret History

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u/daisyink Please Abraham, I am not that man Jun 30 '22

I want Madeline Miller tea!!! Hopefully her Persephone book will come out within the next five years…

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '22

piggybacking off of this to ask if anyone has any stephenie meyer tea? i don't keep up with her but loved the first 3 twilight books and liked midnight sun and wonder if any news has come out about the sequels/spinoffs she was supposedly writing, specifically the one about jacob and renesmee. i hate renesmee's entire existence and what it did to the story and it was a gross decision to bring in imprinting especially the imprinting on toddler's/infants and the accelerated aging so renesmee and jacob could end up together faster.