Dead letter office
Has anyone here actually read Norman Mailer, who is as of today quite dead? Is anyone else relieved that we are free from the responsibility of pronouncing him "genius" or "fraud"? This is apparently very important to some people.
When DeLillo passes away, on the other hand, there will come a day of reckoning.
When DeLillo passes away, on the other hand, there will come a day of reckoning.
posted by to scranton at 9:08 PM
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We were talking about how old he was last week, weren't we?
did anyone see this in the frank rich column: "But earlier this year a senior Pentagon official, since departed, threatened America’s major white-shoe law firms by implying that corporate clients should fire any firm whose partners volunteer to defend detainees in Guantánamo and elsewhere"
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/13/washington/13gitmo.html is the story on the law firm
Wow. a fascinating non-sequitur
I was absolutely astounded reading Mailer's obit in the Times today. What an awesomely epic life. The man ran a serious campaign for Mayor on a secessionist platform, and (relatedly) once stabbed his wife wih a pen. Never did read him, no. Never could really differentiate him, in my ignorance, from Gore Vidal.
I read/own his "Faith of Graffiti" and have much respect for him as one of the first people to examine graffiti in terms of its subculture value long before it gained any modicum of social acceptance.
Also, he apparently head-butted Truman Capote, whom I loathe.
Why the Capote hatin'?
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Robot, I agree: the obit is mind-bending. I like that his running-mate didn't realize Mailer was serious about the campaign until a "disastrous" rally in a Village bar. Forget local politics: this is how our system ought to run.
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