$125 for my thoughts?

Thu, 10 Feb 2000 17:00:00 +0000

Last year I received an e-mail from a student in my online
fiction-writing class saying she'd discovered a Web site she
thought I'd find "gratifying." I was instantly intrigued, rarely
having received anything gratifying from a writing student
before. The URL she gave me turned out to be a bookstore in New
England that sold first editions and signed copies. And, indeed,
the site had a listing for a signed copy of my novel, "Arabian
Jazz." Innocent enough, I supposed, if I let go of the instant
grudge-thought that some book collector had flattered me into
signing a hardcover and then turned a nice little profit on it.
But then I looked closer at the listing and found that the
bookshop had sweetened the deal by including with my novel a
collection of "seven long personal letters detailing the author's
educational and work experiences while pursuing her Ph.D." These
letters, the listing promised, would reveal "details of her
hopes and plans, her frequent moves, her marriage and divorce,
her loves and adventures."

And I wasn't even dead!

Susan Faludi coaches “Fight Club” author

Wed, 24 Nov 1999 17:00:00 +0000

It was to be a meeting of two millennial media icons. Susan Faludi was reading from her new book on the disappointed and disenfranchised modern American male, "Stiffed," to a standing-room-only crowd at Powell's, Portland, Ore.'s massive indie bookstore. In the audience was Chuck Palahniuk, whose novel on the disappointed and disenfranchised modern American male, "Fight Club," had just opened in its film version. He and Faludi were planning to compare notes after the reading. As Palahniuk and I stood together (in a
section, as it turned out, of books on sailing, hunting and other manly pursuits), he showed me an article by Faludi in which she'd praised "Fight Club," calling it "the male 'Thelma and Louise.'"

Salon.com > Diana Abu-Jaber

$125 for my thoughts?

Susan Faludi coaches “Fight Club” author