Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Mad Hamish Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: SF writers in the work force JD Vance. Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 00:40:30 +1100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <8ehfhj9jphf08ssafje6l45ugf8dd4gjub@4ax.com> Reply-To: newsunspammelaws@iinet.unspamme.net.au MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 14:40:40 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="45d0e7fd4b16e6cc27dc025855f79da3"; logging-data="1269316"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1891wK7ysmynDK6V0LiMoKo" User-Agent: ForteAgent/7.20.32.1218 Cancel-Lock: sha1:n8UlIVHUf3k3i52/3mJ8amgjENE= Bytes: 2582 On Thu, 21 Nov 2024 15:26:01 -0800, The Horny Goat wrote: >On Mon, 11 Nov 2024 17:00:42 -0800, The Horny Goat >wrote: > >> >>I have a feeling that when my public library comes through with >>Hillbilly Elegy I'll spend less time reading it than I did waiting for >>it. Last week they sent me an e-mail saying I was now #2 in queue. > >I finally got it and have now finished it and while definitely not SF >considered it worth my while and generally well written - which is not >unexpected given Vance is a grad from a top law school where being >able to write a good brief is pretty much expected. > >I was surprised by the role that Amy Chua (author of the Ride of the >Dragon Mother - and a law school prof at Yale) played in Vance's >courtship of his wife (who one would definitely not expected to have >married a hillbilly!) No doubt we'll all know all about her by this >time next year since she also is a Yale Law graduate. Vance was never near being a hillbilly, he was raised in Middleton Ohio which is a city 29 miles from Cincinatti That's not Hillbilly country - and not many hillbillies get private golf lessons...