A Pulitzer in PowerPoint*

Last week Pulitzer Prize winner author Robert Olen Butler, who I must admit I hadn’t heard of since I only read comic books, was kind enough to email his graduate students, who we hope must contain at least one willing co-ed, and inform them of the reasons for his impending divorce from his non Pulitzer Prize winning wife Elizabeth Dewberry, who I also hadn’t heard of. (I doubt either of them, however, would approve of that introductory run-on sentence.)

As Mr. Butler himself says:

You can feel free to use any part or all of this email to do so. I really appreciate your help.

I’m here to help, Bob.

Sadly our centers of learning are preoccupied more with their own internal affairs and passive-aggressive takedown efforts and less with teaching our college-aged children any sort of actual literary skills. I’ve therefore condensed the finer points of Mr. Butler’s literary missive (which should deservedly earn him Pulitzer number two, or so help me I will scream!) into a few bit-sized portions of Powerpoint suitable for the less-than-literary among us, including myself:

* Truth be told, I used Keynote, not PowerPoint; but the stronger title demanded I go with the better-known, if shittier, tool. N’est ce pas?

Update: Dear Mother of God. He wrote a follow-up.

Written by Mike Monteiro on August 5, 2007 |