The New York Observer calls the Jacobs/Queenan feud a latter-day Mailer/Vidal (scroll down).
"I guess I had heard they wanted to liven things up," said Mr. Jacobs. "I suppose it�s nice to be in a literary feud�I just wish it was with someone with a bit more weight. I want Mailer next."
He�s not the only one obsessed with Norman Mailer. Mr. Queenan said, "You sort of wish it was like Norman Mailer." Mr. Queenan claimed not to have read "I Am Not a Jackass," although he said that someone had alerted him by phone to its impending publication.... "Jacobs seems to have the idea that nobody�s ever written a nasty review before," said Mr. Queenan. "He should take a look at Scott Peck�s reviews �. Have you read Scott Peck?"
Totally. That Road Less Traveled shit is brutal.
