American - Author | May 25, 1967 -
In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably been a way of testing to see whether or not I really was this repulsive creature that I felt like for so long.
Poppy Z. Brite
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Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food.
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My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.
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My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove.
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My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.
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New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.
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Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.
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There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible I am and how no one should ever read my books, and it's not enough for them to hate me, they can't stand the fact that ANYONE likes me!
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This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.
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Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.
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