ITT /lit/ feuds

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>>8611809

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>>8611816
and also this, he's a fighter

ITT minor squabbles between non-entities and twitter gossip.

Faulkner and Hemingway hated each other and once fucked the other's wives.

foreigner who has never read a DFW book and hasnt imported IJ due to fear of it being a meme.

Today I found in bookstore a small book by him with a title and cover about tennis, should I get it? I love tennis.

>>8611809
Only one of them left standing anon

>>8612128
Unironically one of my favorite books of all time.

>>8611856
Actually, IIRC, it started when Faulkner was reviewing a story by Hemingway, saying something like, "Hemingway doesn't have you running to dictionary constantly," and Hemingway was like, "Oh look at me, I'm Faulkner, I have to use big words to sounds smart," then Faulkner was like, "Wtf dude, I meant that in good way," and so on.

>>8612393
Kek

>>8611809
how is it a feud
when B.E.E.
is a pseud

>>8612410

Hemingway's hypermasculinity always struck me as a cover for some profound insecurities. This story makes me think it's true. And then the suicide...

>>8612433
Dfw is eight times the pseud

>>8612434
He was legitimately a closet tranny
His own son became one ffs

>>8612440
but that's better than one times pseud

>my elaborate magnum opus on reality and entertainment
>my 80sesque rat eating woman from the inside opus

>>8612449
>my pseud opus about tennis and weed

>>8611816
Le science guy and cancer man

>>8612433
jus b.e.e. yourself

>>8612453
>my 20th century version of intersecting stories learned from reading Gaddis and Pynchon.
>My tiny book about watching MTV

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>>8612433
David killed himself when he unmasked his own fraud and Bret is still in the game.

If killing himself was an authentic act then it was his only authentic act.

>>8612459
>my reddit tier 'le quirky footnotes' book that tries so hard to be literary
>my book about sexuality, insanity and narcissism

>>8612467
>my "I never read it, but it sucked"
>my "I seent dat movie and but that's the dubs guys too! [sic]"

>>8612467
>footnotes
This is what dumbasses believe.

>>8612472
>my 'I can't understand anything subtle unless there's a footnote explaining it'

>>8612481
>my I'd have a beer and yell about books with you.

>>8612488
>my 'I'll quote entry level calculus and think it's impressive' opus
>my 'people legitimately mistake these quotes for John green ones' opus

>>8612481
That's not really what the endnotes are for

>>8612494
>my razor sharp edges book that could have been written by chuck palahniuk

>>8612498
>my 'autismo supreme wanna pyhchon' book

>>8612630
*wannabe

>>8611816
who is that fluid druid on the left

>>8612647
Jonny greenwood

>>8612481
>'I can't understand anything subtle unless there's a footnote explaining it'

My bad, didn't realize I was supposed to have prior knowledge of obscure occurences from a fictionalized world

>>8612699
>he thinks what happens matters
You probably think american psycho is about a killer