Armistead Maupin

Who cares? Some relic from the 70's who is completely irrelevant today... Found his husband on daddyhunt.com - good lord - tells you everything you need to know right there...

I think you're onto something, OP. He's the belle of the ball in San Francisco, and came running back from Santa Fe in less than a year.

I shook his hand at a book signing and it was ice cold and had this waxy, embalmed look.

Oh, for heaven's sake.

Yes, I'm sure he's a bit of a climber: didn't he start as out as the society columnist for the SF paper?

Like a lot of writers, I'm sure he imagines himself more significant, smarter, and influential than he actually is. Unlike many, he's actually created a handful of popular books that people really loved and that took hold in the public imagination, at least for a while. How many openly gay authors can say that?

Let the old queen have his due.

gives great oral

That's the problem, R4. He is due far less than he thinks he is.

And are we really supposed to believe he bagged Rock Hudson?

he's a dick. talking to him is like getting a sharp-elbow in the ribs

He is a narcissistic user.

I do have to give him credit for being the first writer to mention AIDS in a work of fiction. That's something.

But I follow him on Facebook and he's incredibly MEMEMEMEME. I'm a fiction writer too, so I get how you have to self-promote (it's something I really hate about the current state of publishing - especially when potential literary agents are like, "Do you have a strong social media presence?" No, I'm not a fucking Kardashian. I write novels.) But he is just really over-the-top about it sometimes.

He'll always get a pass from me. I don't know him socially or have to deal with him (if he has an obnoxious personality, etc)

I just know I really enjoyed most of his books.

I wish they'd make a movie of 'Maybe The Moon'.

He'd probably have been A LOT more wealthy had he written about straight people.

He sorta did with Night Listener and had a massive best seller and film deal.

OP, Armistead Maupin is your typical garden variety narcissist; but so is his husband.

I made the mistake of reading his memoir as I did enjoy the first three tales of the city novels, and in it he just shows how he's a user/narcissist and even his own family members find him vindictive.

What kind of name is Armistice Mowpan?

[quote]I made the mistake of reading his memoir as I did enjoy the first three tales of the city novels, and in it he just shows how he's a user/narcissist and even his own family members find him vindictive.

I just watched the Netflix documentary and found his sister, Jane, very likable. I wonder now if she thinks he's a cunt.

90s is where he went over the top on the smugness but one can blame glaad for most of that.. the mini series expanding his circle with others that survive on their own fumes. swoosie

honestly surprised he's not getting the harvey weinstein/bryan singer treatment

More than five years later, there are fewer than 20 replies. I wish there were some way to let him know that's how little interest he generates.

R17 He went with the trannys. Fuck the traitor.