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I enjoyed Ann Bauer's article--and I find it interesting that it has inspired so much vitriole here. Whether you like it or not, you can't say it wasn't stimulating. Personally, I enjoy looks into "worlds" not familiar to me, and the best windows include a personal perspective to make it real and palpable. So I'm willing to absorb the writer's personality traits that shine through, even if they are sometimes negative for the purpose of getting closer to the experience she went through. Yes it's confessional, yes she isn't a perfect person--but I don't open up Salon to read sappy earnest articles, I read it to hear real voices. I also enjoyed Ms. Bauer's previous article, in which, if I remember correctly, she was quite frank about her personal shortcomings and that honesty made the article stick with me. On a final note, it's so true that your work can spoil your enjoyment of something--people in the movie business or music business or retail business go through that every day.
