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The current book I'm reading is quite the page-turner. It's called The Fine Art of Literary Mayhem by Myrick Land. It basically details several literary feuds that have occured this millenium (starting with Samuel Johnson's feuds with, well, everybody).
The book seems to be written in the vein of Paul Johnson's Intellecutals (er, it would be the other way around), except Land isn't nearly as biased as Johnson. Alexander Pope vs. Colley Cibber, Turgenev vs. Tolstoy AND Dostoevsky, Thackeray vs. Dickens, Henry James vs. H.G. Wells, Henry Arthur Jones vs. George Bernard Shaw, Hugh Walpole vs. W. Somerset Maugham, Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis vs. Bernard DeVoto, and Norman Mailer vs. nearly every writer of the 20th century.
There's also a chapter on D.H. Lawrence and his very strange, messianiac behavior.
Sometimes Land does seem a little biased, for instance in the James vs. Wells chapter. He tries to make us believe Wells was only at fault, and that the smug, patronizing Henry James was only trying to be polite that entire time. I also didn't like the potshot taken at Oscar Wilde. However talented Henry James may be, his literary criticism leaves a lot to be desired.
Also, the Norman Mailer chapter leaves out some important (and funny) occurences. For instance, after Gore Vidal wrote that "No one reads [Mailer]. They hear of him.", Mailer knocked Vidal down at a party. While Vidal was still on the ground, he said "Once again, Norman Mailer is at a loss for words."
Also, since this book was printed in 1963, it missed out on a lot of great feuds like Vidal vs. William F. Buckley, Lillian Hellmann vs. Mary McCarthy, Thomas Wolfe vs. John Irving, Vidal vs. Truman Capote, Norman Podhoretz vs. Saul Bellow, etc.