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Sep 12, 2024 · As a man, Mailer has eclipsed his own books, ultimately becoming his own most enduring character. In the manly myth he crafted, deftly conjured with words and punctuation from an unsound ...
Dec 19, 2022 · In a new book, “Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer,” the British literary scholar and biographer Richard Bradford has produced an almost entirely negative portrait of a man whose life is ...
Jul 24, 2024 · The contemporary brief against Norman Mailer is long and sordid. He was a misogynist, a violent man who extolled violence. In his brawling and chest-thumping, he tried to out-Hemingway Hemingway...
- Gal Beckerman
Jul 17, 2024 · Mailer often took the remaking of the American Jewish male to one of its most grotesque extremes. However, it also led to a more fully embodied style of writing, helping form a foundation that...
Simon & Schuster, pp. 947. Heroically brave and mad, prodigious in his industry and appetites, Norman Mailer was an altogether excessive figure. Since his death in 2007 there have been...
May 14, 2007 · Late on a recent Saturday afternoon, Norman Mailer, equipped with two canes, willed his eighty-four-year-old hips and knees up three flights of stairs in his Brooklyn Heights brownstone.
The big claim of Tough Guy, the ostensible rationale for its existence beyond the centenary, is that “Mailer’s life comes as close as possible to being the Great American Novel; beyond reason, inexplicable, wonderfully grotesque and addictive.” Tossed out in the introduction like bait, it’s interesting enough to warrant turning the ...
