{"id":4453,"date":"2018-05-18T09:44:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T14:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=4453"},"modified":"2018-05-18T09:44:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T14:44:05","slug":"writer-recalls-wolfes-feud-with-updike-and-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2018\/05\/18\/writer-recalls-wolfes-feud-with-updike-and-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Writer recalls Wolfe’s feud with Updike and others"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Writing for The Telegraph<\/em> days after Tom Wolfe died, Jake Kerridge<\/strong> recalls a feud between Wolfe and writers who dared criticize him in public reviews\u2014among them, John Updike.<\/p>\n

Kerridge sides with Updike and the others. “There are many reasons to mourn Wolfe, who has died aged 88. I can’t say that the thought that he won’t write any more novels is one of them,” admits Kerridge, who reviewed Wolfe’s last “bloated” novel, Back to Blood<\/em>.<\/p>\n

As for the feud with Updike, Norman Mailer, and John Irving, which Kerridge says was “possibly more entertaining than anything the four of them actually published in the 1990s,”<\/p>\n

“It began when Wolfe, who had made his name as a brilliant journalist, wrote an essay condemning modern American novelists for navel-gazing when they should be out researching and reporting on modern America.<\/p>\n

“Norman Mailer then denounced Wolfe as a show-off, reserving his strongest contempt for Wolfe’s flamboyant dress sense,” and Wolfe “declared war, dismissing Updike (a year younger than himself) and Mailer as ‘these two old piles of bones.'”<\/p>\n

Below is a link to the entire article, photo by The Telegraph<\/em> staff:<\/p>\n

“When writers knew how to fight: Tom Wolfe and the lost art of the literary feud”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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