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more about #alicehoffman more comments → Perhaps Not: 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. more » Perhaps Not: 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-gra... more » johnny_carsick: ah, poor alice, yearning to be loved by the most discerning. just like my good friend william joel. more » StonedAndDethroned: I've dealt with Ford before. He's fucking nuts. Look at his author photo! He looks like a fucking albino murder tranny. more » mina324: In James Franco's defense, I think a lot of college grads have fallen asleep in class at least once. more » CaptainFantastic: 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. more » Dürer's Rhino: 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 ... more » DoctorNine: I wouldn't throw my drink at her for invading my space. Just saying. more » Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate: I hope the Brown-JayZ thing is true. You should not just instantly forgive people for all wrongs. more » milominderbinder: what?! she was so pretty! why did she have to go and get all skeletal. i mean duhh she's still gorgeous but geez. more » Limitedappeal: Lady GaGa tries exceptionally hard to make herself one of the most dislikeable people on the entire planet and succeeds time after time. more » skahammer: 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 w... more » Sharksbreath: "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. more » Lazy Susan: "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 more » snugbug: "..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 sh... more » -
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Never Throw Your Drink at Anna Kournikova
Anna Kournikova viciously brawls with another woman in a Vegas club, Leighton Meester sings and acts in a video for Cobra Starship, Michael Jackson looked frail on stage at his concert rehearsals and Chris Brown gets shut down by Jay-Z. More » -
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The Time Alice Hoffman's Review Drove Richard Ford into a Gun-Wielding Rage
In a comment thread from a post earlier tonight about Alice Hoffman, commenter PromQueen mentioned that Richard Ford once shot up one of Hoffman's books after she "wrote nasty things" when she reviewed his work for the New York Times. More » -
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Alice Hoffman's Non-Apology Apology for Her Bout of Twitter Rage
Alice Hoffman, America's most hypersensitive to criticism novelist, issued a statement this afternoon after publishing Roberta Silman's phone number and calling her names on Twitter after Silman wrote a negative review of Hoffman's new book in the Boston Globe. More » -
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Look Who's Snarking Now: Novelist Uses Twitter to Trash Critic
Alice Hoffman has a new novel out. Roberta Silman gave Hoffman's book a lukewarm review in the Boston Globe. Alice Hoffman then went insane on Twitter, even publishing Silman's phone number and encouraging her fans to call and attack her.
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