buffer-overrun

So, Emily Gould is the one who originally tipped me off that Ann Rower was dating Heather Lewis (and she did tag thealternative endingwith #heather lewis).  But I don’t think there’s any contradiction.  In the acknowledgements, Rower says something like, Thanks to Heather for editing every line and even editing herself out of the second half of the book (I don’t have the book in front of me, but I’ll correct it when I get home tonight)

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I should probably reread Lee & Elaine.  Knowing that Ann Rower and Heather Lewis were dating, I assumed Iris was Heather.

The line in the alternate ending, “I still have the card from Steve Ross’s grave I pinched the first time I took Heather to Green River Cemetery.  … That was three years ago,” makes me think that Heather was the girlfriend throughout (since she was writing Notice, which must put it before the publication of The Second Suspect in 1998, and Hannah Wilke died in 1993.

Here’s the line from the acknowledgements: “Most of all, to Heather Lewis, who did everything, from line editing to removing herself from the plot for the sake of the ending,” which I interpreted as meaning that Lewis edited herself out of only the ending, but now I’m not sure.

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Yes, that afterword [to Notice by Allan Gurganus] is creepy.  Anytime an adult thinks it’s OK to say (even if only telepathically" “Aren’t all grownups Hy-po-crites, man!” to a 15-year old, it’s got to be a red flag.

And, I’m not convinced by, “the toxic death-wish implicit in OxyContin” even if in Lewis’s particular case she might have had a death wish.

—Lee and Elaine by Ann Rower