From the National Post.
Hoffman should know how to deal with nasty reviews. As several savvy commentators pointed out almost immediately after the scandal broke, she herself assassinated Richard Ford’s The Sportswriter in The New York Times in 1986. (See No. 2 in the list of review types above.) Twitter did not exist then, so Ford was forced to use more direct means of communicating his displeasure. He shot one of Hoffman’s books and mailed it to her. As he told The Guardian in 2003: “My wife shot it first. She took the book out into the back yard, and shot it. But people make such a big deal out of it – shooting a book – it’s not like I shot her.”
