heartbreaks

Emily Gould · 08/02/07 03:30PM

"Remember how [Robert Olen Butler] told off Gawker, insisting his detailed explanation of why his wife left him for Ted Turner was 'intended strictly for those who personally know Elizabeth and me' and 'had its intended effect around Tallahassee and in some other places where she and I are actual human beings'? Well, it turns out those 'other places' stretch way past Florida, as we hear through the grapevine that some version of that email worked its way north to the complete opposite end of the country, to people who spend significantly less quality personal time with Butler than his creative writing students. Little enough time, in fact, that the recipients thought the bulletin was creepy." [Galleycat]