1.0 link 68668 <![CDATA[A Competition in Alpha-Male Condescension]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/emma-garman/a-competition-in-alphamal_b_68668.html If this were a contretemps between two women, the word "catfight!" would be gleefully utilized by every reporter (as it was during the never-bettered war of words between Julie Burchill and Camille Paglia).

However, since Martin Amis and Terry Eagleton are middle-aged men (middle-aged, in Eagleton's case, being a charitable description) their mutual panties-bunching is dignified by the banner of "literary spat." Having witnessed, over the years, Wolfe v. Mailer/Irving/Updike, Theroux v. Naipaul, even (sigh)

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