With unhurried-brewed,writerly rancour, Ford has reiterated his urge to spit on Whitehead over a 2001 notice. In the age of social media, and he should be more carefulWith the possible exception of those involved,everyone enjoys a good literary feud. So it was diverting when Richard Ford took to the pages of Esquire to remind us approximately one of the juicier spats of the novel millennium. It started in 2001, when African American writer Colson Whitehead reviewed Ford’s short-story collection A Multitude of Sins in the novel York Times.
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Source: theguardian.com