Monday, October 31, 2016

When art turns deadly …

… The University Bookman: A Regionalist Tragedy.



See also: A Son Revisits the Tragedy of "Raintree County" Author.

      On top of an avalanche of hate mail that came when the book appeared--it was called blasphemous and sacrilegious because it contained sex scenes and religious satire--came Hamilton Basso's devastating review in the New Yorker, calling Lockridge "Ross Lockwood Jr." while trashing his novel--clearly without having read it. These sad tidings darkened even deeper familial currents, washing away any self-esteem that he may have had. He killed himself with car exhaust fumes. 
So much for the New Yorker's vaunted fact-checkers.


(Hat tip, Dave Lull.)




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