Following yesterday’s posts about authors confronting critics on the Internet, Salon.com writer Mary Elizabeth Williams published a fascinating history of the critic-bashing genre.
The story collected of other notable literary feuds from the 21st Century: Dave Eggers’ email exchange with a NY Times reporter, Caleb Carr’s angry words about a Salon review, and Stanley Crouch’s confrontation with a well-known critic.
Finally, in a follow-up post Williams noted that author Ayelet Waldman had left an angry Twitter post about a recent review she received in The New Yorker: “May Jill Lepore rot in hell. That is all.” GalleyCat grabbed that screenshot from Waldman’s Twitter feed:
