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How Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle invented the modern celebrity feud

13 December 2022

2:13 PM

13 December 2022

2:13 PM

1922 saw its fair share of shocks in the literary world, among them the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses, Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt and T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. But perhaps the strangest book-related event of the year didn’t involve any writing at all, at least not as performed by human agency.

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