Back in grad school, several of us students, sitting around having a literary discussion, decided to come up with a quick list of authors who should be shot, and not – an impressionistic list based entirely on whether when you mention the guy’s name somebody instantly says, “he should be shot.” By now the “He should be shot” recollection has faded, but the roster wd probably include perennial candidates the older Wordsworth, who in his later years had trajected from lyrics about daffodils to sonnets praising capital  punishment; Hemingway, who started life photographed in a dress and ended as ...   more »