4.21.2010

That's what she said: Literary haterade

Writers are notoriously cranky, reader types, not only in regard to their own work, but also in regard to the work of others. And sometimes, they just want to throw down. Like Faulkner on Mark Twain:
A hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tricked out a few of the old proven sure fire literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy.

That is what the kids would call "a burn," I believe. And there are 49 more! Click click, sirs and madams.

Also, thank you michael for sending this along!

2 comments:

  1. I agree wholeheartedly with #12 on the list.

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  2. That Faulkner was uber catty! Whoa.

    I'll second twelve. Go Samuel Johnson. And not just b/c of that Blackadder episode.

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