Joyce Carol Oates has once again set social media ablaze, this time with a tweet weighing in on Norman Mailer.

Oates, the prolific novelist with a penchant for riling up Twitter with bizarre and frequently incendiary posts, tweeted her take on the late Mailer, who made news this week after Penguin Random House reportedly canceled a planned anthology of his political writing.

Oates responded to a Twitter user who wrote, “He was a fine writer, but a bad husband. Or should that have read, He was a bad husband, but wrote well.”

“‘bad husband’ to whom?,” Oates tweeted. “like many oft-married men Norman Mailer wound up finally with a much younger, adoring, [and] altogether quite wonderful wife (Norris Church) whom everyone liked. womanizers all eventually wear out, it just takes time [and] if you’re lucky, you are the last wife.”

Mailer was widely regarded as a “bad husband” to artist Adele Morales, whom he stabbed in 1960, nearly killing her. Many Twitter users pointed this out, including editor Sophy Ziss, who replied, “‘he didn’t stab every wife’ is not the argument you seem to think it is.”

And author Marlowe Granados tweeted, “Obsessed with the narrative of ‘if you can avoid being stabbed, you’ve really won…and the prize is his heart.’”

Oates has not directly responded to her detractors, but later retweeted a photo from the Twitter account Bodega Cats, depicting a white kitty leaping from a stack of cat litter bags onto a box of chocolate-chip cookies. The cat’s opinion on Mailer’s marital history is, at present, unknown.

Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.