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The literary life
isn't just about curling up with a good book and a cuppa, it's also a world
where Lord Byron calls John Keats' work "p**s-a-bed poetry", spaniels
eat the first drafts of masterpieces and gung-ho Ben Jonson shows he's more than happy to prove the sword
is mightier than the pen.
The Book of Literary
Scandals
shows that behind the jaunty covers and feelgood memoirs is a dingier world
of personal insults, physical blows, and publishing errors. It's one where
books suffer bad endings and libraries impose bizarre sanctions. It's a story
of writers behaving badly since Sophocles clashed quills with Euripedes,
defacing books, abandoning spouses, and regretting choosing Dylan Thomas to
be the Best Man at their wedding. Elsewhere it looks
at hot take reviews, sniffy dedications, publishers' rejection letters,
literary friendships gone sour and why you should never lick a book
with a green cover.
