Christopher Hitchens On The Art Of The Literary Feud

nytimes.com:

In Sunday’s Week in Review, I wrote about the death of the old-school literary feud now that Paul Theroux has shaken hands with V.S. Naipaul, Rick Moody has thrown a friendly pie at Dale Peck and Twitter has supplanted the White Horse Tavern (or “The Dick Cavett Show”) as the best place to throw a bookish punch.

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