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When writers get petty.(BOOKS)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 20021229
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Byline: Vincent D. Balitas, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

There is nothing, someone once said, like a good feud to keep things lively, and, in "Literary Feuds," Anthony Arthur takes an interesting look at several writers who, for a variety of reasons, some sensible, some inane, clashed with each other.

We get glimpses into the lives of Mark Twain and Bret Harte, Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein, Sinclair Lewis and Theodore Dreiser, Edmund Wilson and Vladimir Nabokov, C.P. Snow and F. R. Leavis, Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy, Truman Capote and Gore Vidal, and Tom ...

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