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The 30 Harshest Author-on-Author Insults In History

Author Insults

First Posted: 06/20/11 11:52 AM ET Updated: 08/20/11 06:12 AM ET

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flavorwire.com:

Sigh. Authors just don’t insult each other like they used to. Sure, Martin Amis raised some eyebrows when he claimed he would need brain damage to write children’s books, and recent Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Egan made waves when she disparaged the work that someone had plagiarized, but those kinds of accidental, lukewarm zingers are nothing when compared to the sick burns of yore.

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01:29 AM on 06/22/2011
No mention of the best one. Mary McCarthy on Lillian Hellman: "Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.'"
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