The Lit Hub girls are fighting! Here’s a fun fact to celebrate Angela Carter’s birthday: the beloved feminist icon did not care for literary tote saint Joan Didion. Need some proof? In 1986, Angela Carter sat down for a phone interview with Rosemary Carroll for BOMB . During the course of the interview, Carroll mentioned that she appreciated the “unique sense of real love for, and protectiveness towards, other women” in Carter’s work, adding: “It is something that I look for in women writers and almost never find.” Carter thanked her, and asked her what she meant. Here’s the resulting exchange: RC Women writers frequently adopt a tone or an attitude toward their female characters which is somewhat negative and ungenerous. It comes across as either whining self-indulgence or congratulatory, stolid self-reliance. There is so little compassion. AC To whom do you refer? RC Let’s say, Joan Didion, for example. AC Yah, boo, sucks.…