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...testing people that invent great things. Like a computer program, for instance. Drug-test those people! Find out if they're on pot, you know. Drug-test those scientists who figured out a way to go to outerspace. The people that really smoke pot - all these great authors - Norman Mailer. They're potheads. Pot has done more for this world than any other substance I can think...
...hadn't. Capote didn't invent true crime, though he did revive and revitalize it. Since 1966, In Cold Blood has served as the template for thousands of true-crime books. But the weird thing is that with a few exceptions--such as Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song--they aren't very good. In Cold Blood is not just the first modern work of true crime; it is also the only true-crime masterpiece, period...
...unnamed “family friend” of Norman K. Mailer ’43 raised questions about the intentions of Harvard’s purchase of an archive from his long-term mistress Carole Mallory, according to the Boston Globe. In Saturday’s Boston Globe, a family friend of the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner said Harvard’s purchase of Mallory’s archive was a spiteful response to Mailer’s $2.5 million sale to the University of Texas in 2005. “Harvard wanted Norman to give them...
Norman K. Mailer ’43 liked to talk during sex, his longtime mistress Carole Mallory said in a revealing interview with The Crimson yesterday.Three weeks ago, Harvard received Mallory’s collection of materials documenting her nine-year relationship with Mailer, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, journalist, and playwright who died last November.“I’m an important part of his life,” Mallory said. “I was. I am.” The former model and actress said she sent the archive to Harvard to recognize...
...strong tradition of fostering creativity in the arts at Harvard. “Here, you feel like you’re in the shadows of all these great people,” she says of the society, whose former members include T.S. Eliot, class of 1909, and Norman K. Mailer ’43. “It’s a very humbling experience.” Under Whitaker’s leadership, the Signet Society and its stately house on Dunster Street have provided a home for students who undertake every kind of creative endeavor, from poetry...