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#1 2007-11-10 06:49:26
- Gomez
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Requiscat in Pace: Norman Mailer
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#2 2007-11-10 07:16:06
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Re: Requiscat in Pace: Norman Mailer
IMHO he did not write anything worth reading for the last 30 or so years.
#3 2007-11-10 08:53:21
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Re: Requiscat in Pace: Norman Mailer
Wilde once wrote that biography lends new terror to death. I think nowadays it's an obituary in the Daily Telegraph that lends the terror.
#4 2007-11-10 09:29:28
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Re: Requiscat in Pace: Norman Mailer
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#5 2007-11-10 09:52:09
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Re: Requiscat in Pace: Norman Mailer
Yes - his loss as simply one of the figureheads of a certain age and style is as worth mourning as his talent as a writer. I am sure that there was a substantial amount of fascinating oral history that went down the tubes with him, sadly.
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#7 2007-11-10 12:21:47
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Re: Requiscat in Pace: Norman Mailer
Why Norman Mailer mattered:
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1682741,00.html
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#8 2007-11-10 14:54:27
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Re: Requiscat in Pace: Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer's era was when Playboy actually did have articles worth reading.
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#9 2007-11-10 16:27:29
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Re: Requiscat in Pace: Norman Mailer
Mailer seemed to define "curmudgeon" more than most.
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#10 2007-11-10 16:41:02
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Re: Requiscat in Pace: Norman Mailer
“You know that saying, 'Caesar's wife is above suspicion'? Well I put an end to all that rubbish!"..”
#11 2007-11-11 00:28:34
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Re: Requiscat in Pace: Norman Mailer
On a human level, he was a total prick. One of my ex's worked for his publisher, so we shared a few meals with him. Obnoxious, with a capital O. Sorry to speak poorly of those passed. Mea culpa.
#13 2007-11-11 01:00:10
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Re: Requiscat in Pace: Norman Mailer
I've only cared to read the Naked and the Dead and the essay on the hipster. I think maybe a few other things. Some interviews. I don't know that he can reasonably be said to be in the same league as Bellow and Updike, among others.
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#16 2007-11-11 05:21:56
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Re: Requiscat in Pace: Norman Mailer
I think Mailer was a much better essayist than novelist. His later novels bring a new definition to the word turgid. His essays, however, can be very exciting; I still remember reading "Superman At The Supermart" in 1960 Esquire, a brilliant portrayal of the JFK phenomenon.
#17 2007-11-11 06:40:28
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Re: Requiscat in Pace: Norman Mailer
""This is probably the last Deb season...because of the stock market, the economy, Everything..." - W. Stillman.
#18 2007-11-11 09:00:04
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Re: Requiscat in Pace: Norman Mailer
“You know that saying, 'Caesar's wife is above suspicion'? Well I put an end to all that rubbish!"..”