http://www.wordyard.com/2007/11/10/norman-mailer-1923-2007/ Technology, politics, culture Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:56:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.wordyard.com/2007/11/10/norman-mailer-1923-2007/#comment-2756 Anthony Sides Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:18:58 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/?p=1410#comment-2756 I enjoyed your piece about Mailer and your Ancient Evenings review: for a long time - as I wrote in my short appreciation of mailer in November - it was by far my favourite Mailer. I read it 6 times, so maybe I used up the turns of all those people who found it unreadable. I enjoyed your piece about Mailer and your Ancient Evenings review: for a long time - as I wrote in my short appreciation of mailer in November - it was by far my favourite Mailer. I read it 6 times, so maybe I used up the turns of all those people who found it unreadable.

]]> http://www.wordyard.com/2007/11/10/norman-mailer-1923-2007/#comment-1131 Sylvia Paull Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:54:44 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/?p=1410#comment-1131 Aside from The Executioner's Song, I couldn't read through to the end most of Mailer's later books. His attention-demanding persona was inseparable from whatever he was writing, whether it was about antiwar demonstrations or ancient Egypt. I think he invented new journalism to incorporate his ego into whatever was happening. Aside from The Executioner’s Song, I couldn’t read through to the end most of Mailer’s later books. His attention-demanding persona was inseparable from whatever he was writing, whether it was about antiwar demonstrations or ancient Egypt. I think he invented new journalism to incorporate his ego into whatever was happening.

]]> http://www.wordyard.com/2007/11/10/norman-mailer-1923-2007/#comment-1132 And the Mailer-less book world turns at pinkyspaperhaus Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:43:49 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/?p=1410#comment-1132 [...] Mailer remembered: by Louis Menand, David Ulin, Michiko Kakutani and Charles McGrath, Scott Rosenberg, Gawker (at its best), the Guardian, the Philly Inquirer, Brando, Germaine Greer and others, more [...] [...] Mailer remembered: by Louis Menand, David Ulin, Michiko Kakutani and Charles McGrath, Scott Rosenberg, Gawker (at its best), the Guardian, the Philly Inquirer, Brando, Germaine Greer and others, more [...]

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