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Hey, no wonder Roiphe doesn’t like Twitter.) On the other hand, some writers have had so many good feuds (ahem, Salman Rushdie) that I’ve had to pick and choose from among them (John le Carré over Mo Yan Updike over Francine Prose). Which only reminds me that I’m carrying on in this introduction, so now, without further ado, please find below twenty-five fascinating author feuds from the last 200 years. She happily trashes my husband, but guess what bitch? He not only writes rings and rings and rings around you, but the same rings around your drunken literary love objects.” (Oh look, there, I included it. And alas, I must also exclude Ayelet Waldman’s 2011 Twitter-salvo to Katie Roiphe: “I am so BORED with Katie Roiphe’s ‘I like the sexist drunk writers’ bullshit. Same goes for Rimbaud and Verlaine’s gun-toting lovers’ quarrel. I wouldn’t count Hans Christian Andersen overstaying his welcome at Charles Dickens’s house a feud, no matter how bad his manners. The Rick Moody/Dale Peck incident-already toeing the line as Peck, while a novelist, is arguably better known as a critic-devolved into a publicity stunt. As far as I can tell, Mark Twain simply bullied Bret Harte, who kept his mouth shut about the whole thing. No simple unremarked-upon bad review or unacknowledged shit-talking will suffice. For instance, Bret Easton Ellis’s bizarrely vicious attacks on David Foster Wallace in the years after his death don’t rate, because Ellis is just trolling.
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In order to qualify as a literary feud, both parties must be literary authors in their own right (no editor-author squabbles), and the argument must be two-sided-that is, there should be at least one exchange, two shots fired. Either way, I love to hear about author feuds of yore, and so I’ve collected (and ranked) twenty-five of the best below.īut first, some rules. Maybe authors are kinder than they used to be-or maybe they just have Twitter. They don’t make literary feuds the way they used to.