- Title: Literary Feuds A Century of Celebrated Quarrels from Mark Twain to Tom Wolfe
- Author: Anthony Arthur
- Year Published: 2002 (MJF Books)
- Year Purchased: 2005-2007
- Source: Unknown
- About: There are writers who spend their lives and careers building a literary community: where everyone is helpful and supportive of one another, where advice and camaraderie abound, where failures and successes are shared. Unfortunately, reality decrees that some people aren’t meant to get along. This same reality also dictates that some people are just jerks. I’ll leave you to decide how to categorize the titans covered in this book. At least wordsmiths lace their rancorous verbal wars with plenty of wit; unlike feuds involving reality “stars” or athletes, you’ll walk away from these encounters with all of your brain cells intact.
Sinclair Lewis-Image via Wikipedia
- Motivation: Writers. History. Obscure facts. Intellectuals fussin’ and fightin’. Bring it on.
- Times Read:1
- Random Excerpt/Page 75: “Fortunately, a revised picture of Lewis is now available from Dreiser’s biographer, Richard Lingeman. Written with sympathetic insight instead of disdain, Lingeman’s ‘Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street’ was published early in 2002; although it adds nothing to our understanding of the quarrel between the two writers beyond what Lingeman had already described in his earlier works about Dreiser, it should help Lewis toward the literary resurrection he deserves. At the least, Lewis should be placed side by side as a literary giant with Theodore Dreiser, the difficult man he admired so much, and from whom he got so little in return.”
- Happiness Scale: 10
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