Norman Mailer, the combative, controversial and often outspoken novelist who loomed over American letters longer and larger than any writer of his generation, died today in Manhattan. He was 84."
Fairwell, Norman. Someday I promise to read the Naked and the Dead.
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I've never read any Mailer and whats more don't feel that I need to ever. Is that a problem? Should I read Mailer? Is he preeminent? A fatherly force in America that one must overcome via Oedipal conflict, if one wishes to become An American Novelist? Has anyone read Mailer. Have any of you, the dear friends of this my generation, read Mailer?
CZF please answer these questions.
All I know about him is that he hated Saul Bellow. Which yes seems outspoken because who, in there right mind, hates Saul Bellow?
Count me in as not having read Mailer -- have never had the desire. If we are to believe Capote's accusation (and we really shouldn't), then "The Executioner's Song" is the greatest literary rip-off of our time. But RIP Norman nonetheless.
i've never read mailer. clf--are you still reading foote? what do you think so far?
i'm taking a break at page 375 and reading jane eyre. i love foote, he's brilliant, and so it charlotte bronte.
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