When Tom Wolfe's A Man in Full, his first novel to appear in ten years, plopped its massive self down in the number-one spot on the bestseller list, it seemed as if every major author over sixty lined up, like boys at a dunking booth, to knock him down. Normal Mailer, John Updike, and Harold Bloom felt it incumbent on them [sic] to take a shot at Wolfe in our most influential papers, claiming his work mere entertainment.
-Besty Levin
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