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The literary life isn’t just about curling up with a good book and a cuppa, it’s also a world where Lord Byron calls John Keats’ work “piss-a-bed poetry”, spaniels eat the first drafts of masterpieces and gung-ho Ben Jonson shows he’s more than happy to prove the sword is mightier than the pen. When Books Go Bad: The Book of Literary Scandals shows that behind the jaunty covers and feelgood memoirs is a dingier world of personal insults, physical blows, and publishing errors. It’s one where books suffer ba

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The literary life isn’t just about curling up with a good book and a cuppa, it’s also a world where Lord Byron calls John Keats’ work “piss-a-bed poetry”, spaniels eat the first drafts of masterpieces and gung-ho Ben Jonson shows he’s more than happy to prove the sword is mightier than the pen. When Books Go Bad: The Book of Literary Scandals shows that behind the jaunty covers and feelgood memoirs is a dingier world of personal insults, physical blows, and publishing errors. It’s one where books suffer ba

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