The New Yorker writer could get herself a gig doing PR rehabilitation work for creeps and other bottom feeders. The text is puff piece that is at times fawning. Plus it will push some units of Louis C.K.'s new novel "Ingram".

The comedian Theo Von compared the book, with its drifter child protagonist, to “an emotional ‘Huck Finn.’ ” The themes and the setting also call to mind Cormac McCarthy and William Faulkner; C.K. has said that he was inspired by Flannery O’Connor. But what he’s produced is something closer to the relentless torture of Hanya Yanagihara’s “A Little Life,” minus the beautiful prose and complex characters.

https://archive.ph/c50Un#selection-1487.25-1491.53

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I posted the quote above when I was halfway through the article. I'm sort of shocked. The text gets even worse!

The most riveting part of the episode is when it turns to C.K.’s personal life. “There’s so many times where I just want to come out and tell people, I’m fucking sorry,” C.K. said. “I’m really sorry. I hurt people.” He’s reluctant to speak about his feelings onstage because they’re complicated: “There’s all kind of fears that come up, and I’m very raw in that space.” But he’s going to continue putting himself out there, “because I love the work and I want to share it.”

Finally in the very last paragraph - the text says Von and C.K. are friends.

[–] 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

I’m very raw in that space

Maybe if you'd stop whipping your dick out all the time, it wouldn't be so windburned shrug-outta-hecks

[–] TheModerateTankie@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

"I'm very sorry for the behavior I engaged in for nearly the entirety of my time as a celebrity and bragged about with my act and TV show. No, I will not go away."

[–] mickey@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The coverage is obsequious and Louis' own statement about this being some kind of journey is self-aggrandizing. I am resigned to the fact that these people keep getting more work but the idea that they are artists experiencing growth is insulting.