Word: mean
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Laughs) No—I might have another novella in mind, but I have no interest in or need to write a novel. I mean, I like reading them, but I don’t have anything in me that says “Oh, you gotta write a novel...
...you’re a “precisionist” in your writing, does that taste apply to other areas of your life? I mean, do you focus a lot on detail...
...have all those early Verve records—all these old soul singers and blues singers, and I bought a bunch of these old CDs in Southern Mississippi that I listen to a lot. Jimmy Reed, just great old timeless stuff. Anything with real energy and real feeling, I mean, it’s like caffeine...
...hours. But being here, there’s people whom I’ve read with great admiration, and suddenly they’re over in the next office, so it’s very heady and exciting. The students are remarkable of course. I don’t mean to pander here, but they truly are. The undergraduates here are as accomplished often, as graduate students I’ve worked with other places, so that’s fun for me. One of my brothers came here as an undergrad, and I used to visit him, you know...
...sunk it HARD. [makes explosion noise].” The whole love storyline happens way too suddenly and ends too quickly for us, but we enjoyed it as an excuse to see her dance and wear a spectacular zoot suit, and we were comforted in seeing her mean and bitter again by the end. Quinn without the Cheerios!? Unthinkable. But if Sue thinks you’re “disgrace,” you’re a disgrace...