The Fine Art of Literary Mayhem: A Lively Account of Famous Writers and Their Feuds

by Myrick Land

Book Overview

Fine Art of Literary Mayhem, The, by Land, Myrick This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0006AYDUW
• Release Date: January 1963
• Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Amusing

I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys literary gossip and anecdotes. Myrick Land's book is a chronological look at great literary feuds through the ages, from Dr. Johnson and Lord Chesterfield to Tom Wolfe and The New Yorker. This book is full of trivia and gives tantalizing behind-the-scenes glimpses of literary life. I particularly enjoyed the chapter on Nabokov and Edmund Wilson, as well as the chapter on Norman Mailer and his wholesale denunciation of his peers. This is the 1983 revised edition.