VE Schwab's first adult novel, Vicious (Titan Books, £7.99), opens with two people in a graveyard, one an escaped convict, the other a dead 12-year-old girl, digging up a corpse that might not be a corpse.
It is noteworthy that despite his anti-egoism, Shaftesbury went to great lengths (as we mentioned in the previous section) to show that the virtuous person will be happier than the vicious person (IVM book II).
(It is noteworthy, however, that her portrayal of Gail Wynand in The Fountainhead is closer to Aristotle's portrayal of the vicious man in Book III of the Nicomachean Ethics as someone who is "unconscious of his vice," than to her own stated view of the evader).
Rumours circulated that Salinger could not, or would not, tolerate the often vicious reviews his books had begun to receive from critics and, if he continued to write, he would write "for the drawer", and not for publication.
Perhaps it was Cosell's final years spent penning vicious barbs in books that built upon the myths of his image and burned every bridge that had ferried him to fame and fortune, from the NFL to ABC to colleagues and confidants.
And there is something vicious about all that book learning, especially when it had to be done by rote.
Einhorn chronicled the often vicious spat in his book Fooling Some of the People All of the Time.
Written and directed by Alan G. Parker; based on Mr. Parker's book "Sid Vicious: No One Is Innocent"; produced by Ben Timlett and Christine Alderson; released by Peace Arch Entertainment.
In the course of a conversation last week in the living room of his Upper East Side apartment, which is dominated not by books but stereo equipment, Podhoretz said, "I'm a strong defender of 'The Bell Curve.' I think 'The Bell curve' has been subjected to the most vicious lynching of any book since 'Making It' --his own 1968 memoir, which many of his colleagues denounced as a betrayal.
Central to the book is vicious right-wing blogger Cameron Slater, who apparently conceived and carried out the majority of these attacks through his site Whale Oil Beef Hooked (a play on the Irish pronunciation of "well I'll be fucked").
