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Pulitzer Prize winning authors can wank too.
Pulitzer Prize winning author Robert Olen Butler's wife (a fellow author) left him for billionaire Ted Turner. Butler decided to send an email to his graduate students about the whole thing mentioning pertinent facts such as she was molested by her grandfather, that she is just one of Ted Turner's girlfriends, and that she had an intestinal blockage. His whole tone in the email is that everything is so amicable and that he thinks she's a wonderful person-it really is the height of passive-aggressiveness.

It might not surprise you to learn one of his friends or students sent the email to gawker. Now Butler has sent a pissed off email to gawker, spoke to Page Six, and did an interview with NPR about it. So far, it's really only a fight between gawker and Butler, but I wish Ted Turner would say something about it.

ETA: Another email to gawker explaining himself. I think the guy just needs to stop now.

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I rewrote that for ya...

shaysdays
2007-08-02 12:51 am UTC (link)

"Rumors will soon be swirling around the department that has seen my PULITZER, so I want to tell the full and nuanced story of how I, a PULITZER winnar, pwn all 'cause I'm like, sooper-talented and that lazy infected slut is off sleeping with a creepy man-whore but it's okay 'cause she told me to tell you all about her being molested because I can be handled with sensitive schtuff like that because I have a PULITZER. Haha- did I mention she sucks at writing? Cause she told me to tell you that, too.

Next, I will tell you about my mom's eleventy billion miscarriages and how they aren't important because she had me anyway, lol. Then I'll go on to how I want my celebration parade for booting her although she left me with the floats of my PULITZER on every block.

Does anyone like me yet?"

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	Re: I rewrote that for ya... marciamarcia 2007-08-02 04:51 am UTC (link)
	In conclusion: PULITZER (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: I rewrote that for ya... smo 2007-08-02 06:24 am UTC (link)
	I LOL'D! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: I rewrote that for ya... rennyn_alerothi 2007-08-02 02:13 pm UTC (link)
	Does anyone like me yet?" I don't know, do you have any Doctorites? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: I rewrote that for ya... aristaea 2007-08-02 11:05 pm UTC (link)
	OMG, are you mocking her? (Reply to this)(Parent)

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