Quiet Dignity and Grace

(BTW, I don't *think* any of my LJ friends are currently near MN, but if I'm wrong, I hope you're okay. I hope that anyway, in fact.)

Slate article:

Robert Olen Butler won the 1993 Pulitzer for fiction for A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain, but at the moment a different selection from Butler's oeuvre is attracting widespread notice within the literary community. That would be the e-mail he recently sent five graduate students (Butler is a professor of English at Florida State University) explaining in bizarrely fine-grained detail why his wife of 12 years, fellow novelist Elizabeth Dewberry, left him to be Ted Turner's part-time girlfriend.

After reading that letter, I'm not sure Butler has considered all the possible reasons why she might've wanted to leave him...