GOSSIP
September 14th, 2007Patrick said Lydia Davis had been married to Paul Auster. I didn’t believe him.
But look!
“Of late, Auster has had some crises of his own to deal with. In 1998, Daniel, his son by his former wife, poet Lydia Davis, pleaded guilty in a New York court to stealing $3,000 from a dead drug dealer called Andre ‘Angel’ Melendez. In the court case, it turned out that Daniel had actually been present in the room when Melendez was killed by a well- known Manhattan party promoter, Michael Alig, who is currently serving a 20-year sentence.
Then 20, Daniel was not implicated in the killing, but received five years’ probation for the stealing charge. It is a subject on which, unsurprisingly, Paul Auster has remained steadfastly silent. I had been forewarned by his press officer that it was not up for discussion, that he had threatened to abruptly curtail a previous interview in which it was broached.”
Update: 9/19, 7PM Lydia Davis at Housing Works
September 14th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
Have you read about Louise Erdrich’s tragic life? Her adopted son accused her and her husband of child abuse, I think accused her husband of sexual abuse, they divorced, and then he killed himself. Dun dun dun.