Braverman underappreciated (according to Kate)

So Kate Braverman sits down with the LA Times and tells the paper that she should be more famous here in her hometown. Martini Republic points out that she is pompous, irrational and could use some Lithium. Even the LA Times seems a bit shocked by what she was willing to say to a journalist; the subhead reads, "Kate Braverman resents her hometown's refusal to recognize her greatness. Really." Her statements include:

Palm Latitutes "is unknown for the masterpiece that it is."

"I'm not just another writer. I don't think people understand my relationship with this city, and they don't understand what I've achieved."

"I'm the best-kept secret in L.A."

"There is not another woman writer in Southern California who sits between Bellow and Conrad next to Hemingway and Kafka. I have the most literary stature, certainly, of any woman in Southern California."

If a biographer wrote this, I could perhaps choke it down. But to put yourself between Bellow and Conrad? She's back on the coke. Gotta be. Or maybe TEV is right and she's a savvy headline grabber.

Comments

[ed]

I think it's headline grabbing. Not unlike the way that Anthony Burgess picked fights with people, but most of his opponents didn't realize that his grumpy old academic was in part a persona.

[Cecil Castellucci]

wowza! that takes cajones!

I am laughing right out loud!

[daniel olivas]

braverman began her harangue over at the los angeles jewish journal:

http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=15348

[valentine bonnaire]

Kate is fab! read Palm Latitudes & find out more about her here:

www.katebraverman.com

xxoo!

[Josh]

In her defense, when she brought up Bellow and Conrad, she did make her point with alphabetical precision.

[52]

she makes her own coke. i doubt she needs to buy it. read the rest of her interviews. it's called "mixed mania".