Now the world knows what Atlanta has known for years: if it’s uniquely crazy, Ted Turner must be involved. Novelist Elizabeth Dewberry is leaving her husband (and novelist) Robert Olen Butler for Billionaire Turner. Butler explained the situation to his graduate students in a truly bizarre e-mail that is now everywhere. (Thanks to Rick and Beth for the tip.)
August 2nd, 2007 at 9:45 am
That was definitely a truly bizarre e-mail.
More than the public needs or is entitled to know.
August 2nd, 2007 at 9:53 am
when it was posted as a blind item, we thought it was probably Rushdie…but hoped it was Chabon.
August 2nd, 2007 at 3:47 pm
I think the e-mail itself explains in far clearer terms why she is leaving him than anything discussed within the e-mail.
But it was heartwarming to hear him so lovingly tell us that his darling wife is a sexually abused trainwreck driven so insane with jealousy by his genius that she will gladly hand herself over to an absent, cheating old man who is the spitting image of her molester rather than stand in his enormous shadow.
But no hard feelings.
August 2nd, 2007 at 4:31 pm
Didn’t Liz and Bob speak at the Margaret Mitchell House earlier this summer?
Flavawheel made me laugh out loud.