Playbill
July, 2003
"The writer's life can be a little isolating and a lot maddening," says Simon Dumenco, author of War of the Words, a look at notable—and hate-filled—feuds between seemingly buttoned-down media figures. Tom Wolfe, best-selling author of The Bonfire of the Vanities and A Man in Full, found himself under attack from a group Wolfe calls the Three Stooges: John Irving, John Updike and Norman Mailer. Wolfe knows such feuds aren't new: "There was a famous fistfight between Ernest Hemingw...
