Big Mouth Strikes Again

Found this on Salon today:

"What happens when authors like JK Rowling can't stop telling their own stories?"
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2007/10/23/dumbledore/

What's interesting here isn't just that JK Rowling can't seem to keep quiet but that she's meddling in our minds in the most Eggersian way. When Barthes proposed the author was dead I don't think he had any idea that s/he might resurface, but just between you and I, I always had my doubts. When authors take control yes it's annoying but maybe it also tells us something else, maybe it tells us that these people can't stop furnishing their inner world - like obsessive collectors.

The article also makes reference to the "little TV screen" playing inside Rowling's head and how she really ought to keep such daytime dramas to herself. Using the TV screen is an interesting idea - like we're always re-running stuff on there all the time but it's inherrently private. Public stories AREN'T on TV screens they're on cinema screens, in books, controlled by people other than us. But TV? We're in charge of that. Writers have pens and paper, film makers have celluloid - but absolutely everyone, it would seem, has that little tv screen in their head on which they run through their favourite story lines and invent new ones.

PS. Hey, Dumbledore is gay!