Arts The Scarlet Letter
This is great: A.N. Wilson, a British biographer who writes about poet John Betjeman, got hoaxed via a forged love letter. Wilson, who received the note from one Eve de Harben (an anagram for “Ever Been Had”), published it as evidence of a nonexistent affair—but the first letter of every sentence spells: “A.N. Wilson is a shit.” Prime suspect: A rival biographer who also writes about John Betjeman. (The latter, as it happens, has a very pretty headstone.)
Full story here.
(Hooray for London, where people care enough to have literary feuds with teeth.)