Tough Guy: What Norman Mailer can teach us
It is right to condemn the writer’s violent chauvinism – but a literature that has lost the power to challenge is worthless.
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It is right to condemn the writer’s violent chauvinism – but a literature that has lost the power to challenge is worthless.
Norman Mailer couldn't even walk the dog without starting a fight. Born in New Jersey in 1923, his debut novel The Naked And The Dead was published when he was just 25.
There is no let-up in the campaign to discredit and, if possible, eliminate artistic figures, past or present, whose work does not conform to the outlook and interests of the gender- and race-obsessed upper middle class.
Penguin has pulled the plug on a collection of his essays. This should chill us all.
An anthology of the late Norman Mailer's writing that Random House allegedly scheduled for his centennial in 2023 but backed off from, will be released by Skyhorse Publishing. The publisher