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...Mailer elsewhere acknowledges that “there are just so many new thoughts you can have,” an argument that any writer is condemned to repeat his central themes...
...such repetition, The Spooky Art is vintage Mailer...
Accounting for the origin of the third-person narrative of Norman Mailer in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Armies of the Night, Mailer recalls the unconscious memory of a chapter of The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams. Its imitation in Mailer’s own work was, in some sense, “spooky...
...close of World War II, Mailer was in the Pacific; during the 1950s, he was part of Greenwich Village counterculture; when Vietnam arrived, he was protesting it; in the 1980s, he ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of New York City. Beyond penning the novels for which he is chiefly known, he founded and named The Village Voice, directed several films, and became one of the original exponents of New Journalism—a style that blurs the line between journalism and narrative fiction. “Repetition kills the soul,” Mailer writes in one of the book?...
Toni Morrison perhaps cannot write for black men, Mailer judges, though qualifying his remark with the warning that he has only read “one or two” of Morrison’s novels, so his perspective may be skewed. In fact the entire section in which this note occurs, “A Lagniappe for the Reader,” assumes his audience will regard any peek into Mailer’s thought processes as a privilege...