I wish I knew how Annie reacted to the loss of the "Best Picture" Oscar last Sunday.
I'm thinking that she's seen a lot, and won't let Hollywood antics get to her, much.
"Seen a lot".... you know, she really has a scary insight into human misery. And look at what she writes about, and the awful fates she hands her characters (save That Old Ace).
Small examples: she sees an old cowboy watching a snooker game, and bingo, imagines
Brokeback so accurately that we who have lived it cannot believe it is not real. And Ennis' inhaling the shirt -- not every author knows that people do that. She is the Encyclopedia of Hell.
I surely, surely hope for her sake, that very little of her knowledge of life in Hell is derived from personal experience.
Dal