Alain de Botton v. Caleb Crain

the Literary Saloon at the complete review - 1 - 6 July 2009 Archive: The next author to (over-)react to what s/he perceives as a bad review is Alain de Botton, who responded (scroll down in comments) at Caleb Crain's weblog to Crain's review of de Botton's The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work in The New York Times Book Review (see Alain de Botton tells New York Times reviewer: 'I will hate you until I die' in The Telegraph for an overview of the whole incident).



       De Botton wrote, among other things:

You have now killed my book in the United States, nothing short of that. So that's two years of work down the drain in one miserable 900 word review.