Word: mailer
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Harper's gambles most of its March issue on the hope that readers will be fascinated by Norman Mailer's 90,000-word reflections on the follies of last fall's Washington Peace March. Mailer flails himself as much as he does other Mailerian targets-Nazis, cancer, L.B.J., newspapers, and TIME. Indeed, Mailer begins by fully quoting TIME'S Oct. 27 account of his performance on the stage of Washington's Ambassador Theater at a rally before the Pentagon march began. Drunk he was, and he admits it. But the crisp account of Mailer...
Bogey to Norman. This is Vidal's personal notion as well. He firmly believes that the screen, not literature, shaped his generation of writers. "Without Bogart," he says, "there could be no Norman Mailer. Without George Arliss," he adds with a Disraeliish gleam, "there wouldn't have been...
Like the best of Fuentes' earlier books, Where the Air Is Clear (1960) and The Death of Artemio Cruz (1964), this one shows the influence of just about everyone the ambitious Mexican ever admired. There are echoes of Dos Passes, D. H. Lawrence, Faulkner, Mailer, Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges. This time Fuentes also works in some sarcasm about the Mexican ethos, particularly his country's lively relationship with death and all its trappings. Mythology and symbolism are planted in conspicuous places for those readers who relish those forms of mental exercise, and there is enough...
Nine years ago, Podhoretz' friend and literary confidant, Norman Mailer, brashly announced in Advertisements for Myself that he was embarking on "a revolution in the consciousness of our time." He predicted that his writing would have "the deepest influence of any work being done by an American novelist in these years." Like Podhoretz, he was asking too much, but he has at least gained the fame and riches that his friend is still seeking. Lacking Mailer's style, his sense of irony and his skill at infighting, Podhoretz has several more books and years of exhibitionism...
...Beauty Beast. Stephen Birmingham will issue separate reports on white Anglo-Saxon Protestants and Sephardic Jews, Barnaby Conrad a memoir and a how-to-do-it on bullfighting, Muriel Spark poems and stories, Tom Wolfe a collection of essays and a report on Novelist Ken Kesey, the Norman Mailer of the West Coast. But all this conspicuous industry settles into sloth when compared with Mystery Writer John Creasey's publishing schedule for the year: 15 books under four different names...