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...Possessed and Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener to Camus's The Stranger. The letters of Convict Jack Abbott extend and ultimately strain that tradition. Part polemic, part existential survival manual, In the Belly of the Beast was culled from 1,000 pages of handwritten missives to Norman Mailer, then composing The Executioner's Song. Its message is brief, but it echoes like a slammed door in the corridors of maximum security...
...Mailer notes, Abbott's trials are far from over. His gift for survival now faces its newest and hardest test. He has been paroled to freedom for the first time in 25 years. -By J.D. Reed
...competitive staples like coffee, pet food, breakfast cereals, cigarettes, soft drinks and soaps. Consumers, eyeing the manufacturers' huge promotional budgets, sense that they are paying for the discounts and may as well take advantage of them. Says Kerry Smith, head of information services at Donnelley Marketing, a national mailer of grocery-store coupons: "Our estimate is that if one uses coupons consistently throughout the year, one can save anywhere from $300 to $500 on the grocery bill...
...ideal probably had begun to fade when Norman Mailer published a hodgepodge of fiction and autobiography under the title Advertisements for Myself. In any case, windy self-advertisement became more and more popular in the years that followed. Said John Lennon at the peak of the Beatles' popularity: "We're more popular than Jesus Christ now." Said Heavyweight Boxer Muhammad Ali, in a typical flight: "It ain't no accident that I'm the greatest man in the world at this time in history." The same period at last produced an intellectual model for publicly saluting...
...Acting is much like professional football," observes Norman Mailer, writer and sometime thespian. So when it came time to film his big scene in the movie Ragtime-wherein his character, Architect Stanford White, is assassinated by Millionaire Harry K. Thaw (Robert Joy)-the star got the pre-game jitters, "not because I was being shot, but because I might let the team down." He died like a pro. As the bullets flew, he slumped convincingly over a table, then rolled to the floor. His comely companion cried holy murder, which made Mailer especially proud. She is his sixth and current...