I would not like John Ottinger III to shut up

[shweta_narayan]

ETA2: Two important notes:
1. johnottinger has apologized in comments here as well as on his blog. While I agree that one does not always get a cookie, I'd like to point this out as an apology that is clear and sincere in tone, without any of the hedges we've seen too often in this sort of discussion

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[nnaloh]

I also love the work of David Anthony Durham, or Nalo Hopkinson

Wow. With admirers like this, who needs detractors? How can he have missed the point that everything about my writing and anthology editing and how I approach them is in opposition to attitudes such as his?

[shweta_narayan]

How can he have missed the point that everything about my writing and anthology editing and how I approach them is in opposition to attitudes such as his?

I've been trying to figure that out myself. I guess he might have figured that you got a diverse anthology by random chance. (and Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root wouldn't really count, I suppose, being preselected for Caribbean writers?)

But even so, how in the world did he get through a story of yours without figuring out that your identity affects your writing?

[nnaloh]

Argh. Is all. BTW; I'm in Oakland till December.

[shweta_narayan]

Oooh!
Will you be WFC?

[nnaloh]

Yes, I'll be at WFC.

[shweta_narayan]

Yay! I hope to see you there :)

Incidentally, an apology.