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5 days ago · As a lover, fighter, rabble-rouser, and perhaps the last true American public intellectual, he seeks most of all to become a bolder, better human being and encourages us to do the same — to think adventurously, speak fearlessly, and care less about the response — or risk a doomed future.
1 day ago · July 24, 2024, 12:25 PM ET. Listen. 00:00 15:59. Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. The contemporary brief against Norman Mailer is long and sordid. He was a ...
4 days ago · Following the screening on August 9, Matt Tannenbaum, owner of The Bookstore in Lenox, will sit down with Maggie Mailer for a conversation about the documentary and her father. “This documentary really feels like a form of reintroduction of Norman Mailer to the world right now,” Maggie Mailer said. “I have never stopped learning about him.
3 days ago · Here too Chartier could say that even on his interpretation of The Golden Rule, if my friendship with Chris influences me to become catty and harm others, and this outweighs whatever value I get from the friendship, then the friendship is inconsistent with my well-being, and thus inconsistent with the very value and purpose of friendship, as laid out in the first requirement of love (Recognition).
5 days ago · Wild 90 is a 1968 experimental film directed and produced by American novelist Norman Mailer, who also plays the starring role. The film is a creative collaboration based on three friends, Norman Mailer, Buzz Farbar and Mickey Knox, who are seen drinking, braying, and fighting in a run-down apartment in lower Manhattan.
3 days ago · Let’s look at five practical bits of wisdom from St. Francis de Sales on authentic, holy friendship. 1) “Love your neighbor, Dear reader, with a great, charitable love, but befriend only those with whom you can be mutually supportive in virtue.
2 days ago · FRIENDSHIP. A mutual belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks, hobgoblins and imbecilities. Variant: Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins. [Chrestomathy, ch. 30 "Sententiae" (1949)]
