AS Byatt - clueless

[heiditandy]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Catherine Coleman" 
<catherine at c...> wrote:

> 
> Why???  What has AS Byatt done?  I've always been a fan of hers - 
> loved Possession, loved the Frederica Quartet (particularly Babel 
> Tower), loved some of her more Gothic, fantastical fiction.  I did 
> find she's a bit difficult in RL - I met her at a reading in 
> Blackheath a few months ago, and found her quite uninspiring to 
> listen to, and quite humourless, but I think some of her work more 
> than makes up for any character defects.

She called us "childish adults" in an editorial in the NY Times 
after OotP came out. You can read a blurb about the editorial and 
some of the backlash over at http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/cgi-
bin/mt/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&search=byatt - you can't get the 
original editorial anymore without paying a fee, though.

Heidi