@scalzi @mwl
I grew up in a family of writers and literary people were in and out of the house all the time. Big names you would know. I learned quickly that what they put to paper had little to do with their reality. There was the great novelist who had a mentally disabled son he treated like shit and told to “just man up”. The famous poet who fucked my 14-year-old best friend from school. And general petty megalomania and transparent self-aggrandizement all round.