In the Bookroom


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March 29, 2007

Fists of Fury!

Filed under: Uncategorized, Authors — Wilda Williams @ 12:56 pm

Ernest Hemingway, who sometimes fancied himself a macho pugilist, has nothing on Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa in the boxing department. Check out the shiner he gave Columbian novelist Gabriel García Márquez in 1976.

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For full sordid details on the literary fisticuffs between the former best friends, check out today’s New York Times.

 

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