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Monday, December 21, 2009

Books LitFight!

Posted by on Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 1:28 PM

Here (via Edward Champion's Twitter) is a post of the ten biggest literary feuds of the aughts.

I enjoy a good list of literary feuds, especially when they involve such nastiness as calling an author "dull, colourless, humourless, vulgar and a complete failure" and a “bitter, vulgar slut," a bad book review (one that even maligns the book's font) as an act of revenge, and "the worst writer of his generation."

That said, number one on the list is a huge cheat, which is disappointing in a decade that had a number of regrettable critic/author battles on Twitter. Surely, they could've picked a real feud to top the list.

 

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1
Can any of these compare to Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy's feud?
Posted by illiterate on December 21, 2009 at 2:17 PM
2
The reference to the font is saying that the font was degraded by association from merely having the terrible book printed in it -- not maligning the font per se.
Posted by Read Careful-er on December 21, 2009 at 2:36 PM
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What about the Colson Whitehead/Richard Ford feud? It was maybe not as litigious or far-reaching as all of these, but that's my favorite...

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Conte…
Posted by bookworm on December 21, 2009 at 3:09 PM
Dances with Marmots 4
What about James Wood v. the N+1 staff? Or Harold Bloom v. black people?
Posted by Dances with Marmots on December 21, 2009 at 3:31 PM

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