mocking the decision in an american college to reprimand some students for holding a mexican tequila party wearing sombreros, so you chose to wear a sombrero, and then you made a speech in which you hoped that the notion of cultural appropriation in fiction was a fad, and that caused a real storm. did you go over the top, do you think? no, i don t think so. i mean, first of all, i should clarify that that speech is widely misreported, and i wore a sombrero for exactly the last two words of that lecture. so it was just a little touch. and then it gets widely reported that i wore it for the entire speech, which i find offensive mostly on a theatrical level.
for holding a mexican tequila party wearing sombreros, so you chose to wear a sombrero, and then you made a speech in which you hoped that the notion of cultural appropriation in fiction was a fad, and that caused a real storm. did you go over the top, do you think? no, i don t think so. i mean, first of all, i should clarify that that speech is widely misreported, and i wore a sombrero for exactly the last two words of that lecture. so it was just a little touch. and then it gets widely reported that i wore it for the entire speech, which i find offensive mostly on a theatrical level. i mean, that s. .. that would be bad drama. i don t take back anything i said in that speech, which i don t think was especially radical.
you went to australia to talk at a literary festival and you donned a sombrero for some of that speech to make a point of, i suppose, mocking the decision in an american college to reprimand some students for holding a mexican tequila party wearing sombreros, so you chose to wear a sombrero, and then you made a speech in which you hoped that the notion of cultural appropriation in fiction was a fad, and that caused a real storm. did you go over the top, do you think? no, i don t think so. i mean, first of all, i should clarify that that speech is widely misreported, and i wore a sombrero for exactly the last two words of that lecture. so it was just a little touch. and then it gets widely reported that i wore it for the entire speech, which i find offensive mostly on a theatrical level.
to reprimand some students for holding a mexican tequila party wearing sombreros, so you chose to wear a sombrero, and then you made a speech in which you hoped that the notion of cultural appropriation in fiction was a fad, and that caused a real storm. did you go over the top, do you think? no, i don t think so. i mean, first of all, i should clarify that that speech is widely misreported, and i wore a sombrero for exactly the last two words of that lecture. so it was just a little touch. and then, it gets widely reported that i wore it for the entire speech, which i find offensive mostly on a theatrical level. i mean, that s. .. that would be bad drama. i don t take back anything i said in that speech, which i don t think was especially radical. ido. i had been hoping that cultural
last book or any of them? i don t know if anybody appreciates it, but he was extremely well read. not just in nonfix, of course he was, but in fiction. we had similar tastes in those lines, and he could talk quite intelligently about somerset, or hemingway or william trevor, a mutual favorite. we enjoyed the same things to read. he wanted to speak plainly but passionately, sort of, i don t know, the way you would expect a guy that had sacrificed so much for his country s ideals to speak. somehow we had kind of a mind meld on how that should sound and it was a happy collaboration for 30 years. well, he was lucky to have you. kind to say. pitching forward to tomorrow,