Loads of fun to be had with the 50 best author vs. author put-downs of all time.
Heh.
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hahahaha too funny!
Posted by: Christina | 27 May 2010 at 07:44 PM
if only steinbeck wasn't dead. then i could kick him.
Posted by: i hate emo kids | 27 May 2010 at 08:11 PM
delightful. especially when I agree.
Posted by: Jackie Parker | 30 May 2010 at 07:15 PM
I don't know who Edward Fitzgerald is, but I hope his death was painful.
Posted by: Jackie Parker | 30 May 2010 at 07:51 PM
His was especially harsh, right? He didn't confine himself to insulting one author, he had to go after her entire sex. Yeesh.
Posted by: Leila | 30 May 2010 at 08:24 PM
I did a little more investigating on Nabokov's Hemingway slam ("I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it."), and the really crazy thing is that it seems that "bells, balls, and bulls" is actually a reference to a phrase from about 1864, from a book about surnames. I don't know if ol' Vladimir was just reading the 1864 title, doin' a little research, and then was like "Bells, balls, bulls! That describes Ernest to a T!", or what, but it's pretty awesome.
Posted by: dotdotdot | 31 May 2010 at 09:33 PM
If you haven't seen this yet (I'm a little behind), you should. http://jezebel.com/5550911/university-of-washington-library-students-faculty-remix-lady-gaga
Posted by: str4y | 01 June 2010 at 11:03 AM