![]() ![]() “It was a culture that produced.”)īut Jiles had also been hospitable and welcoming. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then there was the way she asked me, sharply, if I was capable of understanding the “big difference” between those who “listen to music” and those who “make music.” (“It was not a consumer culture,” she said of her childhood in the Missouri Ozarks. There was one “Shame on you” when I admitted to not being as well versed in the work of Charles Dickens as I probably ought to be. Two weeks earlier, when we spent almost three hours together on her 31-acre spread in the unincorporated Hill Country town of Utopia, she’d sneaked in a few barbs. This was not my first experience being insulted by the best-selling author of western novels. Before she signed off-“Sorry about that but it just isn’t working for me”-she also let me know she’d read some of my work online and had come away less than impressed. She was responding to my request to ask her a few follow-up questions, and this was her characteristically caustic way of saying no. “This was the first time I was interviewed about a new book by somebody who hated writing and didn’t read books until recently,” Paulette Jiles wrote me via email on January 30. ![]()
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