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    Never Throw Your Drink at Anna Kournikova

    The Time Alice Hoffman's Review Drove Richard Ford into a Gun-Wielding Rage

    Alice Hoffman's Non-Apology Apology for Her Bout of Twitter Rage

    Look Who's Snarking Now: Novelist Uses Twitter to Trash Critic
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    06/30/09

    In reply to The Time Alice Hoffman's Review Drove Richard Ford into a Gun-Wielding Rage
    Good old Richard Ford. Let's all pump a few rounds into "All the Sad Young Literary Men" in his honor. Joshua Ferris, you go first.
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    06/30/09

    In reply to Alice Hoffman's Non-Apology Apology for Her Bout of Twitter Rage
    Honestly, Hoffman dug her own grave with the phone number post. No writer of more than modest gifts would resort to that kind of silly-ass, fourth-grade bitchiness if she could string together a few sentences' worth of decent invective.
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    06/30/09

    In reply to Alice Hoffman's Non-Apology Apology for Her Bout of Twitter Rage
    ah, poor alice, yearning to be loved by the most discerning. just like my good friend william joel.
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    06/30/09

    In reply to The Time Alice Hoffman's Review Drove Richard Ford into a Gun-Wielding Rage
    I've dealt with Ford before. He's fucking nuts. Look at his author photo! He looks like a fucking albino murder tranny.
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    06/30/09

    In reply to Never Throw Your Drink at Anna Kournikova
    In James Franco's defense, I think a lot of college grads have fallen asleep in class at least once.
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    06/30/09

    @mina324: ...or "slept their way to a degree."
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    06/30/09

    In reply to The Time Alice Hoffman's Review Drove Richard Ford into a Gun-Wielding Rage
    I see nothing wrong with shooting a book. Work through your anger how ever you'd like, as long as you don't harm anyone else.
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    06/30/09

    @CaptainFantastic: Yes, agreed; there are many ways to get your ya-yas out, as we used to say back in the day. Shooting a book is a fairly benign one. Just don't wave that thing at me!
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    06/30/09

    In reply to Alice Hoffman's Non-Apology Apology for Her Bout of Twitter Rage
    I now feel completely justified in believing her writing is total crap and I can tell my friends who recommend her books without hesitation that they are morons.
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    06/30/09

    In reply to Never Throw Your Drink at Anna Kournikova
    I wouldn't throw my drink at her for invading my space.

    Just saying.
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    06/30/09

    In reply to Never Throw Your Drink at Anna Kournikova
    I hope the Brown-JayZ thing is true. You should not just instantly forgive people for all wrongs.
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    06/30/09

    @Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate: Especially when they're not sorry.
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    06/30/09

    In reply to Never Throw Your Drink at Anna Kournikova
    what?! she was so pretty! why did she have to go and get all skeletal. i mean duhh she's still gorgeous but geez.
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    06/30/09

    @milominderbinder: I think she looks great.
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    06/30/09

    In reply to Never Throw Your Drink at Anna Kournikova
    Lady GaGa tries exceptionally hard to make herself one of the most dislikeable people on the entire planet and succeeds time after time.
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    06/30/09

    @Limitedappeal: If you'll indulge me here, I think Lady GaGa provides a valuable service to the world at large. That is to say, she's a very potent reverse-IQ test. You can very easily and reliably ascertain the depth of someone's stupidity by figuring out whether or not they listen to, much less claim to enjoy, the work of Lady GaGa. I can't tell you how many second dates the GaGa Test has gotten me out of. And yes, we're pretending that it was my choice here.
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    06/30/09

    In reply to The Time Alice Hoffman's Review Drove Richard Ford into a Gun-Wielding Rage
    For anyone who's wondering, Richard Ford wins here.


    I have nothing to say about all the other books discussed on this topic, but The Sportswriter is worth defending -- with small arms if necessary.

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    06/30/09

    @skahammer: And Independence Day - he's extraordinary.
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    06/30/09

    In reply to The Time Alice Hoffman's Review Drove Richard Ford into a Gun-Wielding Rage
    "People make such a big deal out of it - shooting a book - it's not like I shot her."

    Richard Ford


    Must have been the Mississippi coming out of him.

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    06/30/09

    @Sharksbreath: Mississippi, Texas, Montana, Maine, whatever.
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    06/30/09

    @BookishLookish: On Gawker, it must be a formerly-Confederate US state.
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    06/30/09

    In reply to Alice Hoffman's Non-Apology Apology for Her Bout of Twitter Rage
    "I heartily apologize for how badly written both my insult and apology was. Sorry. It's difficult to include irony and nuance in 140 charact
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    06/30/09

    In reply to Alice Hoffman's Non-Apology Apology for Her Bout of Twitter Rage
    "..in the heat of the moment.."


    Oh, so THAT's your excuse? Brilliant! It's as if you're arguing here that this was a crime of passion, and that you should be tried in the court of public opinion on a charge of manslaughter, in lieu homicide.


    Sorry, toots. You're an adult. Unless you were drunky-high at the keyboard, there is no excuse for blasting 25+ tweets into the ether berating a reviewer. Thankfully, the current media news cycle has the attention span of a gnat, so you can rejoice in the fact that SOMEONE will ef up shortly, and you'll be left alone.


    Cheerios!


    PS: You know what else? Can you imagine someone like Rimbaud giving the proverbial two sh*ts or a f*ck about what his CRITICS said? Man, I miss those balls-out, full-on literary freaks who just did their thing, period.

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    06/30/09

    @snugbug: But some of us can easily imagine how this is analogous to a crime of passion, snugbug.


    It often takes a while to construct a statement or analysis that one really means to stand behind. With that in mind, I figure everyone gets a 24-hour grace period for first-draft thoughts, which can be discarded or disowned at whim. Such an approach would work wonders in bringing sanity to this situation, wouldn't it?


    I mean, they're just tweets.

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    06/30/09

    @snugbug: OK, let me be a bitch and say "the heat of the moment" is code for "hot flash."


    Ch-ch-ch-changes...

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