Biggest Literary Feuds Of 2013

Biggest Literary Feuds Of 2013
PARIS, FRANCE - SEPTEMBER 20. American writer Jonathan Franzen poses during a portrait session held on September 20, 2011 in Paris, France. (Photo by Ulf Andersen/Getty Images)
PARIS, FRANCE - SEPTEMBER 20. American writer Jonathan Franzen poses during a portrait session held on September 20, 2011 in Paris, France. (Photo by Ulf Andersen/Getty Images)

As 2013 draws to a close, we give you our second-annual look at the scuffles, controversies, and feisty debates that have helped keep the literary world lively over the past year. Among this year’s conflicts, presented here in rough chronological order, a few themes emerge: clashes over the function of online literary criticism, questions about gender and literature, and struggles over who controls an artist’s legacy and fortune.

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