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...Journalist Paul Starobin has written, “To be a Russian, or at least to be a proud, historically attuned Russian like Putin, is to feel both a certain suspicion of and a certain resentment toward the West.” Was this true when you were in Moscow and is it true today...
Hurd left the commentary, tucked in a footnote of the decision, at this. Starobin avoids responding directly to the sting of the decision that both crushed her hopes and mocked her mercilessly...
...Starobin stresses that she sued King not for the money or publicity, but because she could not go on believing that someone had ripped off her work without pursuing every available avenue. She didn’t want any publicity (and did not subsequently get an agent) and in fact says that “I really was prohibited from seeking any type of publicity because to do so would damage the case. This was the last thing I wanted...
...unpleasant thing with a case like this is it’s very easy to come out looking like a kook,” she says. Starobin made herself most vulnerable with her arguments against King’s literary talent, as judged by her oft-referenced Ivy League educated perspective. Hurd is particularly snarky when he remarks on this point. “[Starobin] also states that “BLOOD ETERNAL” , ‘which is the product of an Ivy League education, is not the work of an untutored hack...
Reflecting on the experience a full year after the judge’s decision, Starobin is humbled but upbeat. Something good did come of her painful legal entanlgement. “One of King’s lawyers had a paralegal read my book. When she told me she liked it, I was so happy. That’s what...