Alice in Blunder-land

Dear Reader,

I am a huge fan of Alice Hoffman's novels. Like the critic Roberta Silman, who recently reviewed Ms. Hoffman's latest novel, "The Story Sisters," in the Boston Globe, I came to love Ms. Hoffman's books first by reading "Illumination Night," which I admired as much for the writing as for the tale.

Nothing about the latest Twitter scandal, in which Ms. Hoffman supposedly ranted at Ms. Silman in a series of ever-more-frantic Tweets, changes my mind about her work. And, like writers...