Comments on: Roundup

By: mike payne

mike payne — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 01:24:45 +0000

in what way is Katie Coe’s reporting good? She makes psycho-analytical assessments of Theresa,that she isn’t certified to make,corect me if I am wrong,maybe KAte is an analist-friends of Kates claim her,and claim Kate to have writtein about her friend Theresa-one moment Kte talks about liking Theresa and then says she did not know her well-just enough to pitch it to around as her inside scoop on an event she had no idea would be so expansive-she probably thought of the Staircase as trivial and quaint.
Personal attacks on Monica are not cowardly-she’s a shrinking violet-in her letter to Raymond I lost rrack of how many times she says to the best of my memory,referring to the events at Magnet. Monica admits she didn’t want to work on Shoo Fly Pie,and she implied the theme to her dumbass seemed racist,but she wasn’t calling Theresa a racist…Monica whines about how at lunch with Theresa and Ian Svenonius Theresa hurt her feelings.
Katie Coe your new claim to fame is having written about Theresa Duncan,portraying yourself as the insider the friend,at least according to your friends.
Theresa is everything you are not and everything you will never be-worth talking about,a great person to know-loyal,she never made me sign any agreements-everytime I asked her for anything,it was always yes,yes,yes.
Why don’t you fucking wirte something that adds to this world instead of throwing water on the
BIG BAD WIT.

By: Kate Coe

Kate Coe — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 03:57:03 +0000

I interviewed several people at Magnet–more than enough to satisfy my editor at the LA Weekly. They all collaborated Gesue’s story, as have others commenting and posting around the internet. I don’t believe that Gesue has an “axe to grind” . She hired a lawyer to send Duncan a cease and desist letter referencing Duncan’s claims in interviews to be the creator of Chop Suey (in one case, she claimed David Sedaris, the narrator, as a collaborator.

Oddly enough, I’ve not received any emails from any former Magnet staffers or people who’ve worked with Duncan on any projects that disagreed with the printed version of events.

Personal attacks on Gesue are cowardly.

By: JJ

JJ — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 07:49:26 +0000

Re: Coe’s piece about Theresa Duncan, to call it the “article to end all articles” (and to support that assertion by praising its use of hyperlinks) is laughable. The fact that Monica Gesue was accorded with having the “definitive” account of Theresa’s time at Magnet, for one, is a major red flag for me (I worked with them at the time it happened).

Monica, it should be made clear, is an ex-collaborator of Theresa’s with an axe to grind. She seems to have been waiting for a decade to revise the story after being been jilted by the younger, smarter and more ambitious Duncan. And what better time than now, since Ms. Duncan is not able to answer her false assertions?

Besides the insidiously vague comment she makes about there being “whispers” about Theresa’s past, her taking credit for coming up with the idea for Chop Suey simply not true. Why didn’t Coe seek out an objective source to dig a little deeper than Gesue’s side of their breakup, such as Magnet’s senior management?

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 21:44:51 +0000

I’m also an “average female scientist” – I’m actually female though.

By: DrMabuse

DrMabuse — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 21:31:59 +0000

If you are indeed the expatriate you say you are, Sgt., then thanks for the grand laugh. I hope you don’t mind if I file my peaceful report today instead of tomorrow.

By: Sgt Lionel Twain-Shriver

Sgt Lionel Twain-Shriver — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:52:36 +0000

Re the Le Guin link and the comment on email, I think one of the commenters at Gawker (discussing some obscure lit’ry to-do, ignored here and at Sarvas, Maud, Bookslut or any of the major litblogs, involving characters named Dewberry and Butler and Turner) said it best: “Thank God Hemingway never had email.”