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Friday, April 19, 2013
The Two-Way
Book News: Two Authors Make 'Time' List Of '100 Most Influential People'
April 19, 2013 Also: Penguin offers to drop Apple ebook deals over European antitrust case; a page out of Thomas Pynchon's latest novel; and a long-overdue apology.
Monday, November 12, 2012
The Two-Way
Salman Rushdie, John Le Carre End Literary Feud
November 12, 2012 The feud began in 1997 in the letters pages of the Guardian, with Rushdie calling the author of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy "a pompous ass" and Le Carre accusing the author of The Satanic Verses of "self-canonization." Both writers now say they regret the literary war of words, and speak of their mutual admiration.