Jennifer Egan vs. Jennifer Weiner
This past April, Egan got into hot water after an interview with Julie Steinberg in the Wall Street Journal where she derides chick lit authors. Egan said, “There was that scandal with the Harvard student who was found to have plagiarized. But she had plagiarized very derivative, banal stuff. This is your big first move? These are your models?” Weiner, author of Best Friends Forever, tweeted, “Agh. Did Egan really have to pause, mid-victory lap, to call Kinsella, McCafferty ‘derivative and banal?’” Egan has since apologized.
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That finger bowls line easily ranks up there in one of the worst and most embarrassing comebacks ever.
[...] you? Just after squashing a 15-year feud with Paul Theroux, the writer who’s also made an enemy of Derek Walcott has picked a fight with half the world’s population: women. The Guardian reports that, in an [...]
Nabokov vs. Edmund Wilson
I forgot about Nabokov vs. Wilson! That was an epic war of words. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1965/aug/26/letters-the-strange-case-of-nabokov-and-wilson/
And there would also be Julian Barnes versus Martin Amis. A friendship gone very badly. The Information was a lovely vicious work.
Since I wrote the book on feuds, I know that you can’t forget the classics bouts, like Hemingway and Max Eastman, fighting over a desk at Scribners: http://www.planetpeschel.com/index?/site/comments/hemingway_vs_eastman_1937/
There’s gotta be other literary feuds. What about some poets???
[...] musings: Norman Mailer proving to the world what a total asshole he [...]
and not a very smart asshole, at that. But if you read Cavett’s transcipt of the whole affair, you’ll understand what happened a lot better than just what the excerpt here gives you. Link:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/14/in-this-corner-norman-mailer/
[...] For the original report go to http://flavorwire.com/183467/10-notorious-literary-spats/4 [...]
This is a very small point, but the past tense of the verb “to spit” is “spat.”
Richard Ford spits today. Richard Ford spat yesterday. Richard Ford has spat out a lot of crap in addition to some great books.
Borges versus Neruda
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Neruda
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