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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I heard rumblings of character problems with her a decade ago when I was doing an MFA in creative writing. Nothing definite, but this does not surprise me. [/quote]
What did you hear? Very curious to know. (I was in an MFA program and know you get the inside scoop a lot if times).

She always came off as a cipher in interviews and feature articles. I reread one that Daphne Merkin wrote about her. She comes off as person with nothing interesting about her and not a deep thinker. She gives no insights into her process or art. She was supposed to be extremely private. Merkin describes her house and garden and it sounds very average and boring. I mean, nothing against that but the described house revealed nothing of her life or career and she said she still worked at the kitchen table. That detail seemed performative to me at the time and more so now. She liked to garden; very average stuff to want others to focus on for a writer of her caliber. She was considered one of the best writers in the world at that time. No one like that is really a Susy Homemaker.

I liked her work so always read whatever I could about her, but never felt like I learned anything and she was sort of relentlessly average which is ridiculous when yiu examine it. Now it seems like she was probably just driven and focused on her career above all, and didn't care about anyone. She was also supposedly a feminist. She didn't extend that beyond how the definition served her. [/quote]

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