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Spotted this over at The Digital Reader:

Classic Authors Who Suck, According To Other Classic Authors

Famous Authors Who Hated Each Other’s Writing

For every great author, there’s another great author eager to knock him or her down a few pegs. Although the writers on this map are typically deemed canonical by literary tastemakers, there wasn’t much mutual admiration amongst them.

We’ve mapped out the rivalries and one-sided vendettas of many celebrated writers; just hover over an arrow between two authors to see a cutting insult directed by one to the other.

Some examples

Mark Twain on Jane Austen

“I often want to criticise Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice'; I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.” -- Letter to Joseph Twitchell (Sept. 13, 1898)

William Faulkner on Mark Twain

“A hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tricked out a few of the old proven 'sure fire'; literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy.” -- From "American Drama: Inhibitions"

Ernest Hemingway on William Faulkner

“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?” -- Quoted in A. E. Hotchner, Papa Hemingway

William Faulkner on Ernest Hemingway

“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.” -- Quoted in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature, edited by Richard Thomas Eldridge