[doctorpangloss]

All the true stories you actually bother to read are a little fictive.

That said, he said two specific relationships with real people that I know, by name, and you know what? He’s telling it like it was in those cases.

The least real thing about this is that, reading carefully, the only antagonists are the occasional grant committee members who reject him. To me, in real life, fine artists are quite opinionated and tend to beef with a lot of people; or have no opinions, and are pigeonholed into doing the same exact thing that once, long ago, got them an audience, over and over again. Andrew does not belong to this latter group.