When it comes to smack talking people generally think of professional wrestlers, New York cab drivers and desperate, outgoing rappers. But there's no reason we shouldn't add great writers to that list. If the great men of letters are incapable of smack talk, what hope do the rest of us have?
Luckily The Examiner has compiled a list of the 50 greatest author-versus-author put-downs from history. In it you'll find out that J.D. Salinger is "narcissistic and sentimental", Melville was "a solemn ass" and Voltaire? "King of the nincompoops".
Read it here.
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