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A German reader after finishing "Now it´s Time to Say Goodbye":

"Ich war froh, das Buch dann endlich zuklappen zu können und den sinnlosen
Gewalttaten in Galatia / Galatea entfliehen zu können."
http://www.die-leselust.de/buch/peck_dale_schwarz.htm

Stanley Crouch Punches Critic: The Literary Wars Turn Violent
A little after two o'clock today, while novelist and book critic Dale Peck
was lunching with the writer Linda Yablonsky at Tartine in the West Village,
jazz critic/cultural commentator/novelist Stanley Crouch decided to
introduce himself. (Peck had reviewed a novel of Crouch's a few years back;
in response to that review, Crouch told Salon that Peck was "a troubled
queen.")

At Tartine, Crouch shook Peck's hand, then, as a follow-up, smacked him in
the face, saying "if you ever did anything like that [presumably referring
to the review] again, it'll be much worse."
http://www.gawker.com/topic/stanley-crouch-punches-critic-the-literary-wars-turn-violent-017590.php