Arkansas
“I WAS IN TROUBLE. An English poet (now dead) had sued me over a novel I had written because it was based in part on an episode from his life. Worse, my publishers in the United States and England had capitulated to this poet, pulling the novel out of bookstores and pulping several thousand copies.
Why should I have been surprised? My publishers were once Salman Rushdie’s publishers too.
I didn’t live in Los Angeles then. Instead I was on an extended visit to my father. After his retirement a fe...w years ago, he moved down from the Bay Area to Glendale because his wife, Jean, teaches at a university not far from there. They own a newish house, rambling and ceremonial, rather like a lecture hall. This house, which originally belonged to a movie producer, includes a “media room,” the electronic controls of which are so complex that even after five years, neither one has figured them out; a lighting system more various and subtle than that of most Broadway theaters; a burglar alarm they can never quite explain to Guadalupe, the cleaning lady, who seems always to be tripping it accidentally.MoreLess
Why should I have been surprised? My publishers were once Salman Rushdie’s publishers too.
I didn’t live in Los Angeles then. Instead I was on an extended visit to my father. After his retirement a fe...w years ago, he moved down from the Bay Area to Glendale because his wife, Jean, teaches at a university not far from there. They own a newish house, rambling and ceremonial, rather like a lecture hall. This house, which originally belonged to a movie producer, includes a “media room,” the electronic controls of which are so complex that even after five years, neither one has figured them out; a lighting system more various and subtle than that of most Broadway theaters; a burglar alarm they can never quite explain to Guadalupe, the cleaning lady, who seems always to be tripping it accidentally.MoreLess
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