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Humiliation…
Last week I interviewed Wayne Koestenbaum. His latest book, “Humiliation” (Picador), will be out this week.
That’s what the book is all about; humiliation. We have all been there. Humiliated. We don’t like being humiliated do we?
I really enjoyed my conversation with the author. It is a serious book. And a funny one. He ends the book by listing some of the humiliations that he has endured. Here are a few of my favorites:
” When a barber finally cut my embarrassingly long and frizzy hair a friend said ‘Now that you have short hair, people won’t mistake you for a girl.’
“In seventh grade, a big kid hung me up, by my belt loop, on a doorstop.”
“I gave two of my poetry books, warmly inscribed, to a major poet. A few years later, my protege’ told me that she’d found those very copies, with their embarrassingly effusive inscriptions, at a used book store.”
“A violently negative review of my book started rolling out of my fax machine.”
“Years later, a violently negative review of my book started rolling out of my fax machine”
“I threw away my fax machine.”
My interview with the author will air this week on WYSO (91.3fm).
Vick Mickunas
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