Life's Too Short For Bad Behavior by Eric Beetner

 A writer whose work you admire A LOT turns out to be a disgusting pervert. Do you stop reading their work? Do you hold your nose with one hand as you turn the pages with the other? Do you refuse to be on a panel with them?

Boy do I wish this was a hypothetical thought experiment and not a real-life scenario.

The question of how to separate the art from the artists is a long-standing one. In recent years a small handful of writers I've known casually, and been friendly with over the years, have be...