Fruit Of The Lord
May 10, 2017 9:49 AM Subscribe
Haven't started reading it yet, but I was sold on it after the review on Autostraddle (occasionally, gleefully NSFW):
posted by Halloween Jack at 10:34 AM on May 10, 2017 [3 favorites]
I know that the most popular hotel paintings are: beach after everyone is dead, beige interpretation of the rage of a cat, squares going wild.Followed by one of those NSFW parts.
posted by Halloween Jack at 10:34 AM on May 10, 2017 [3 favorites]
The style of this interview chafes me, and I don't remember the Toast being this inscrutable. In conclusion, getting old is a land of contrasts.
posted by rhizome at 10:38 AM on May 10, 2017 [7 favorites]
posted by rhizome at 10:38 AM on May 10, 2017 [7 favorites]
I've really missed regular Mallory Ortberg since she deleted her twitter. Jazzed to hear about her tinyletter.
posted by Emily's Fist at 10:50 AM on May 10, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Emily's Fist at 10:50 AM on May 10, 2017 [1 favorite]
So was her father like this guy, a married Anglican who converted to Catholicism?
posted by larrybob at 11:36 AM on May 10, 2017
posted by larrybob at 11:36 AM on May 10, 2017
I'd like to read/see an interview by John Fugelsang, whose parents were a priest and a nun who quit their stations in order to marry.
posted by rhizome at 11:52 AM on May 10, 2017
posted by rhizome at 11:52 AM on May 10, 2017
“There are human Lassies among us,” Lockwood sums up. “My mother is one of them, and all humankind is her Timmy.”
Dying.
posted by DrAstroZoom at 12:26 PM on May 10, 2017 [2 favorites]
Dying.
posted by DrAstroZoom at 12:26 PM on May 10, 2017 [2 favorites]
Oh great, so the next time I enjoy Vile Bodies, Decline and Fall or The Loved One, I'll be thinking of Waugh and his bananas. Christ, what an asshole. Sometimes it's just better not to know about the bananas.
posted by kinnakeet at 1:52 PM on May 10, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by kinnakeet at 1:52 PM on May 10, 2017 [1 favorite]
Thanks for this!! I have been missing The Toast so much lately, it's good to get my Ortberg fix. And this book sounds like an automatic buy for me.
posted by Ziggy500 at 1:55 PM on May 10, 2017
posted by Ziggy500 at 1:55 PM on May 10, 2017
Gosh thanks, Ms Lockwood is someone I follow on twitter, no actually sure why or when or how as my poet juju is weak but always a fine quip from her and certainly someone worth getting out across town to listen to a reading.
posted by sammyo at 2:45 PM on May 10, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by sammyo at 2:45 PM on May 10, 2017 [1 favorite]
(from the Autostraddle review) She once tweeted “so is Paris any good or not” at the Paris Review.
I love her.
posted by Daily Alice at 2:53 PM on May 10, 2017 [3 favorites]
I love her.
posted by Daily Alice at 2:53 PM on May 10, 2017 [3 favorites]
Not only did she tweet at the Paris Review asking for their review of Paris, but they reviewed it in response.
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 4:14 PM on May 10, 2017 [16 favorites]
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 4:14 PM on May 10, 2017 [16 favorites]
It's pretty good!
posted by Daily Alice at 5:56 PM on May 10, 2017
posted by Daily Alice at 5:56 PM on May 10, 2017
A three banana eater. There is something so... perfect about that.
posted by Deoridhe at 8:26 PM on May 10, 2017
posted by Deoridhe at 8:26 PM on May 10, 2017
Priestdaddy sounds like an EXTREMELY Eyebrows McGee book.
posted by Chrysostom at 10:06 PM on May 10, 2017
posted by Chrysostom at 10:06 PM on May 10, 2017
The Paris tweet remains my favourite tweet of all time. I did not know they had responded and am delighted.
posted by ominous_paws at 4:56 AM on May 11, 2017
posted by ominous_paws at 4:56 AM on May 11, 2017
The style of this interview chafes me, and I don't remember the Toast being this inscrutable. In conclusion, getting old is a land of contrasts.
I felt a bit of that too, and I'm bald/grey and have started making noises while getting out of chairs, so. Solidarity.
At bottom it's two friends enjoying each other and riffing while interviewing, which if you know half of their inside baseball or are a fan fully invested in them as personalities is going to be really delightful to read. To people who have read a bit of The Toast here and there, it requires a lot of content threshing. But probably the target audience for this has been closely following them for some time.
posted by middleclasstool at 5:10 AM on May 11, 2017 [2 favorites]
I felt a bit of that too, and I'm bald/grey and have started making noises while getting out of chairs, so. Solidarity.
At bottom it's two friends enjoying each other and riffing while interviewing, which if you know half of their inside baseball or are a fan fully invested in them as personalities is going to be really delightful to read. To people who have read a bit of The Toast here and there, it requires a lot of content threshing. But probably the target audience for this has been closely following them for some time.
posted by middleclasstool at 5:10 AM on May 11, 2017 [2 favorites]
I adore both and even to me this was a little bit A Lot, so I feel you. The kids do not yet have to get off my lawn but they should begin preliminary consideration of what they'd like from their next position.
posted by ominous_paws at 7:35 AM on May 11, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by ominous_paws at 7:35 AM on May 11, 2017 [3 favorites]
I don't know why it is, but for some reason I've been friends with PK's all my life.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 3:21 PM on May 11, 2017
posted by The Underpants Monster at 3:21 PM on May 11, 2017
i am late to this post, but the excerpt Greg Nog quoted above made me laugh out loud when i came across it while reading Priestdaddy on my lunch break this very afternoon and i haven't enjoyed a book this much in a while and everyone should go buy it and read it right now
posted by burgerrr at 4:49 PM on May 15, 2017
posted by burgerrr at 4:49 PM on May 15, 2017
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