THIS WEEK IN LITERARY HISTORY

Thomas Hardy gets wasted, sells his wife and child, and thinks, "This is an awesome idea for a novel."

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Literary Catfight! (Between Two Older Guys)

Normally, I don’t put a post up just to link to another article, but this was just too awesome to resist. In an interview in The Guardian newspaper, my boy Salman Rushdie rips into John Updike as revenge for Updike’s review of “Shalimar the Clown” in the New Yorker.

The good stuff is in the second paragraph.

My favorite line is, “Somewhere in Las Vegas there’s probably a male prostitute called ‘John Updike.’” Awesome!

 

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