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The History of Literature

98 Great Literary Feuds

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

Arts, History, Books

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2017

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

What happens when writers try to get along with other writers? Sometimes it goes well – and sometimes it ends in a fistfight, a drink in the face, or a spitting. Mike Palindrome, President of the Literature Supporters Club, joins Jacke for a look at some of literature’s greatest feuds. Authors discussed include Gore Vidal, Gertrude Stein, Norman Mailer, Marcel Proust, Ernest Hemingway, Vladimir Nabokov, Rick Moody, Jonathan Franzen, Colson Whitehead, Lillian Hellman, John LeCarre, Richard Ford, Dale Peck, Edmund Wilson, Margaret Drabble, Salman Rushdie, Edgar Allan Poe, and A.S. Byatt.  Show Notes:  Contact the host at jackewilsonauthor@gmail.com or by leaving a voicemail at 1-361-4WILSON (1-361-494-5766).  You can find more literary discussion at jackewilson.com and more episodes of the series at historyofliterature.com. Check out our Facebook page at facebook.com/historyofliterature. You can follow Jacke Wilson at his Twitter account @WriterJacke. You can also follow Mike and the Literature Supporters Club (and receive daily book recommendations) by looking for @literatureSC. Music Credits: “Handel – Entrance to the Queen of Sheba” by Advent Chamber Orchestra (From the Free Music Archive / CC by SA). “Spy Glass” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.    *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy.  Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The good thing about him is it's constant metamorphosis. He does re-bear himself like the Phoenix and what the next incarnation will be I don't know where you seem to have me figured out as the next reincarnation for me is going to be Charles Manson.

0:57.8

Well you let you read what you wrote you let yourself in for it and I will tell you I give a little background here that

1:07.1

Mailer has written we all know that I that I stabbed my wife years ago. We do know that door you were playing on that now I want to forget about this

1:14.3

we know you do don't want to forget about it you're a liar and a hypocrite you were playing on it but that was

1:18.6

a matter of the public that wasn't going to talk about it the fact of the matter is that people

1:22.2

to read the New York review of books

1:23.4

know perfectly well, they know all about it, and it's your subtle little way of doing it.

1:29.7

You know, the New Yorker wants...

1:30.7

Oh, I'm beginning to see what bothers you know. Okay, I'm getting the point. Are you ready to apologize?

1:35.0

I would apologize if it hurts your feelings, of course I will.

1:40.0

No, it hurts my sense of intellectual pollution.

1:43.0

Well, I must say... I mean, there's an expert, you should know about that.

1:47.0

I would like to...

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