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...critic recognizes the injury in sexism, he can't bring himself to take it too much to heart. Rather than go through the motions of confronting this aspect of Miller's work, he scrupulously ignores it. The women's liberation movement long ago slung the albatross of sexism around Mailer's own neck, and he must have considered that intentionally reconjuring its specter in this book would put a large part of his potential readership in a stalking mood--not good, when a writer is out to purvey his product, and the subject of this anthology has the sales promise...
Without facing up to it in either himself or his subject, Mailer projects his intolerance of the opposite sex onto Miller, exaggerating the latter's drift at least once over...
...fanatic about anything, not even sex. Curiously enough, under the macho veneer of the critic's voice lies a kind of prudery. That Miller sublimates murderous inclinations into lust is plausible. But this camphorous old wives' tale--or old codger's tale, say--evinces fear of female sexuality. Mailer's near hysterical protestation of a woman's weakness fronts for an appalled reaction to her spongy, devouring vagina and the ballooning mystery of her womb...
...Mailer readily admits that of all Miller's acquaintances, Nin pierced his psyche most straightforwardly, yet he persists in reading her judgments through the aperture of his biases. The writer foundering in the brothers and streets of Paris during the '30s was more gullible. But self-consciousness wasn't in his nature, and when he let it impinge on his novels, Nin's analysis paralyzed the frowzy romanticism of his vision as an entomologist pins the wings of a moth. Mailer is right in pointing out that Miller was "without philosophy--he had only sentiments, at their best likely...
...reporter asking searching questions. The working press also found itself outranked by the favors granted to guest journalists. Hoping to reach the sizable but apathetic young audience, Carter talked lengthily to Rolling Stone's self-centered Hunter S. Thompson (who neglected to quote Jimmy), to Norman Mailer (Carter said a four-letter word) and to Playboy's Robert Scheer, a self-styled "aggressive Berkeley radical." The delayed effects of these interviews increased Carter's wariness with the press...