American Psycho and Less Than Zero author Bret Easton Ellis has taken to Twitter to go off on the late novelist David Foster Wallace, prompted by a late-night reading of D.T. Max's biographyEvery Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace. To put the smack-talk into perspective, here are the greatest literary feuds in history, from Mailer punching Vidal to Dickens vs. Thackeray.
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Greatest Literary Feuds
Bret Easton Ellis vs. David Foster Wallace
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Norman Mailer vs. Gore Vidal
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Richard Ford vs. Colson Whitehead
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Salman Rushdie vs. John Updike
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Harold Bloom vs. Harry Potter
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V.S. Naipaul vs. Paul Theroux
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Tom Wolfe vs. Norman Mailer, John Irving, and John Updike
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Mary McCarthy vs. Lillian Hellman
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Truman Capote vs. Gore Vidal
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Ernest Hemingway vs. Gertrude Stein
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