“For Bill—You douche bag, you think you can emotionally manipulate me, a very nice person, into insulting you, by appealing to my niceness? Fuck you, Bill. You were right. Fuck you, dude. <3”
—Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia, in response to Bill Ryan’s request for authors to sign his copy of their books with insults. He blogs at Insulted By Authors about readings he attends with snapshots of the inscribed pages. (via)
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