Brokeback author’s porn problem

The author of Brokeback Mountain, the novella which inspired the blockbuster film starring Jake Gyllenhaal and the late Heath Ledger, has complained that the book has become "the source of constant irritation in my private life". Annie Proulx, the 73-year-old Pulitzer Prize winning author, has claimed that ever since the Academy Award-nominated film was released in 2005 she has been bombarded with "pornish" fanmail.
 
According to Proulx, a lot of the letters she receives are "reinterpretations" of her story, written by fans who think she didn’t go far enough with the explicit detail in the sex scenes. Proulx told the Wall Street Journal: "There are countless people out there who think the story is open range to explore their fantasies and to corrupt what they see as an unbearably disappointing story."
 
The original story concerns two cowboys in the American Midwest who fall in love with each other, despite the intolerance of their community. Proulx said of her tiresome correspondents: "They constantly send ghastly manuscripts and pornish rewrites, expecting me to reply with praise and applause for 'fixing' the story."
 
Proulx’s new collection of short stories, Just Fine the Way it is, focuses on the women who live on the Wyoming ranches that Brokeback Mountain used as a setting. ·