/lit/ - Literature

I'm a little surprised Tom Wolfe's feud with John Irving, John Updike and Norman Mailer wasn't mentioned.

>Updike on Wolfe: (A Man in Full) is entertainment, not literature, even literature in a modest aspirant form.“

>Mailer on Wolfe: “At certain points, reading the work can even be said to resemble the act of making love to a three-hundred-pound woman. Once she gets on top, it’s over. Fall in love, or be asphyxiated.”

>Irving on Wolfe: "He’s a journalist … he can’t create a character. He can’t create a situation.”