The Shaky Afterlife of Norman Mailer
The decline in his fiction over his lifetime was understandable. The mystery is why his worst journalism ever received such lavish praise.
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The decline in his fiction over his lifetime was understandable. The mystery is why his worst journalism ever received such lavish praise.
Norman Mailer’s modus operandi was to seek out the most morally troubling corners of human experience—and rush headlong into them for material.
Writer Norman Mailer’s busy lifestyle shaped his family’s life. In her memoir, the eldest of his nine children discusses her relationship with the great New York author
A new collection drains much of the interest of the writer’s thoughts on the subject by presenting him as an orthodox leftist.
His books are ambitious and often lyrical. Like their author, they can also be noxious and flawed | Culture