“…just another boring little middle-class boy hustling his way to the top.”
That’s what Gore Vidal had to say about John Updike in 2008.
Think that’s bad? Examiner.com’s Michelle Kerns has compiled the 50 best author vs. author put-downs, and Vidal’s comment is just the proverbial tip of the iceberg. Nathaniel Hawthorne called Edward Bulwer-Lytton “the very pimple of the age’s humbug.” James Gould [...]











