Remembering Mailer Two Years Later
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William Buckley Interviews Norman Mailer on Firing Line (1968) Part 1
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Remembering Mailer Two Years Later
Sort by Brooklyn Heights Blog (Free subscription) - 11/10/2009
Brooklyn Heights resident, former NYC mayoral candidate and world renown author Norman Mailer died two years ago today from acute renal failure. We thought it appropriate to remember the cantankerous writer with this clip from his 1968 appearance on Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. Also, today’s Brooklyn Eagle has an interesting retrospective on Mailer. Amazon.com [...]
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LOL And Void
Sort by Dennis Perrin (Free subscription) - 11/05/2009
Writers are increasingly marginal, which may be best. Techno-distractions shred traditional thought patterns, reducing the young to monosyllables, grunts, and nods. Attention spans crumble in the slightest breeze. Add a fixed political arrangement, corporate assaults on what remains of public life, endless war abroad, religious insanity at home, and what's the point of reading, much less writing? Part...