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Poppy Z. Brite

American Author

Born: May 25, 1967

Been Book Food Me People Think

Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

Celebrities, even insignificant ones like me, are created to be abused by the Great Unwashed. Poppy Z. Brite

Great Me Insignificant Abuse Like Celebrities Created Even

I certainly don't think I would have been asked to pose for Rage if I wasn't a known writer. Poppy Z. Brite

Rage Think Would Writer Known Been Asked Certainly Pose

I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years. Poppy Z. Brite

Death Book First Several About Absolutely Write Contained New Without Years References New Orleans Wanted Anyone Explaining Much Certainly Who Lived Orleans Incomprehensible Draft Here Honest

I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror. Poppy Z. Brite

Work Progress Definitely About Horror Like Talk Working Novel Now

I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and the people he introduces me to and the stories he brings home. Poppy Z. Brite

In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America! Poppy Z. Brite

Funny Experience Chapter Thought First Corpse Laughed Netherlands Never Had Read Audience Were America Places Exquisite

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner. Poppy Z. Brite

Financial Mother Father Economics Office Manager Planner Professor

This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex. Poppy Z. Brite

Relationship Old Sex Other Enough About Scenes Point Could Hot Missed Readers Because Understand Passionate Than Liquor Lack Being Anything Old Enough Lament Who

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