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First Posted: 06/06/11 09:27 AM ET Updated: 08/06/11 06:12 AM ET

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When the Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul shook hands with the novelist Paul Theroux at a book festival in the Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye last weekend, one of the longest-running feuds in the literary world came to a decorous and rather anticlimactic end.

"After so many years, we've finally spoken," said Mr. Theroux.

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Indigo1941
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10:04 AM on 06/06/2011
Neither one of them is worth the price of a hard-back novel.
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mikeodd
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09:29 AM on 06/06/2011
The Lit world needs some more color, some controversy. Where are all the outlaws? its just one big dork-fest out there.
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