Tbh the worst thing about this video is that the students aren't yelling fuck you and pelting him with garbage

Lol it's true, SWEET TALK is in many ways a totally definitive work. I know SV had writer's block in various forms, but I do think she may have also just run up against the problem of having written something perfect

Lol gd. So good

Dave Portnoy, owner of Barstool

Ah glad to hear this Jeff—I'm kind of an evangelist about that book

Anyway, she did the work and made art that has endured and touched people's lives—not much more you can ask for than that. RIP to an extremely real one

Stephanie was one of those people who are just so intensely themselves. Her aura was off the charts powerful, and she was hilarious. I remember, in the lead-up to the publication of my first novel in 2016, she said (in her cranky flat Ohio voice), "Ah yes, pre-publication, the storm before the calm"

(No room to talk ofc, as a possessor of several thousand dollars worth of bootleg Steely Dan gear)

you know when you're thin-slicing the exact moment where pedophilia ends and ephebophilia begins, you are on the right side of an argument

The Crichton estate would never allow it though