On the disappointingness of great men

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1 Szerelem November 4, 2009 at 6:15 am: Thank you.
2 Szerelem November 4, 2009 at 6:29 am: THIS. Thank you.
3 sepoy November 4, 2009 at 9:01 am: Lapata!
4 omar ali November 4, 2009 at 9:34 am: Not being uptodate with literary gossip, I dont get it. What is disappointing about Kiran Desai and Pamuk hanging out?
5 elizabeth November 4, 2009 at 2:19 pm: Ha! Szerelem has been cranky about this ever since I spilled the beans. What, no love for the advent of the Turkish-desi synthesis? The Turkish press has been rather curious about the whole thing.
6 lapata November 4, 2009 at 5:34 pm: Hello! Have you read the Inheritance of Loss? Sepoy wanted me to do a review of it when it won the Booker Prize. I would have been happier sitting around hammering nails into my hands. It made me lose respect for the Booker, and now I fear I may lose respect for Orhan Effendi. I had a plan to film a goat eating it, and post it to CM, but I couldn’t find any unsupervised goats hanging around Palo Alto so I gave up on the project. Maybe she’s funny?
7 AIG November 5, 2009 at 2:29 pm: he can do better…
8 biryanilady November 6, 2009 at 11:17 am: well lordybethanked, that was *exactly* my response to I.O.L. . But my hands got soundly slapped when I laid those cards on the table, so I folded them up. Yes, thank you indeed. (the literary love gossip I had fully missed, but didn’t miss that I missed it)
9 ayesha November 10, 2009 at 5:59 pm: That is not Orhan Pamuk is it???! When did he get that old??!
10 Aylin December 3, 2009 at 1:57 pm: I’m sorry, but… I’m not sure about Booker. “Inheritance” is dusgusitng. The book is about nothing. The book is empty… I’m loosing my respect for Mr.Pamuk who was crazy about her books… As for this smart and “pretty” ;-) lady, Pamuk is a very good advertisement for her… if she could become Mrs. Pamuk :), as Turkish press promised us all the summer. Well, let’s forget literature at least all the Turkey knows how to kiss!
11 cef February 27, 2010 at 3:40 pm: having had the pleasure of knowing her, I will report that Kiran is not “smart”–she is brilliant; she is not “pretty”–she is exquisite; she is not “funny”–she is darkly hilarious. above any of these, she is the most discrete and and the modest individual you could ever be lucky enough to meet. mr. Pamuk is a lucky man that she will have *him* (Great Writer, though he may be) and his devout fans should give him credit for knowing it.
12 Iris Gerson March 11, 2010 at 11:08 pm: I”d like to ask the user name “Aylin” if she is the ex-wife of Pamuk- : )) Just out of curiosity… What if Kiran Desai becomes Mrs. Pamuk? So what!

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