Word: mailers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pseudotough tones of the neorealist, Novelist Norman Mailer, 51, has always claimed he writes only for cash...
...Journalism's only innovation, the heavy injection of the writer in to the story, is generally uninteresting and detracts from the real issues at hand. Norman Mailer can get away with it because he is a public figure whose reactions are interesting, but no one much cares what the recent journalism school graduate thinks of bars or workers or pimps. The primary role of journalism is to provide a basis for the reader to make his own judgment, a role which is sacrificed if the reader has to wade through dozens of 'what I thoughts' and 'how I felts.' (Mailer...
...detailed portrait of organized crime that avoids the mythification of The Godfather. Based on the novel by George V. Higgins, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney who worked mainly on organized crime, the film is notable for the same clear, crisp dialogue found in the book--it led Norman Mailer to write, "What I can't get over is that so good a first novel was written by the fuzz." Robert Mitchum plays aging small-time gangster Eddie "Fingers" Coyle...
...absurdity trying to hold the pieces together. Grass claims that he writes first of all for himself, to work out his own needs and that any writer who says he is writing primarily "for society" is simply not telling the truth. It is instructive that Grass highly admires Norman Mailer, who, Grass says, is always writing about himself when he claims to be writing about social or political problems, and yet because the problems of society are inside him, succeeds anyway. Grass has had a career somewhat similar to Mailer's, finding himself famous at a fairly young age, exhausting...
NONFICTION 1−How to Be Your Own Best Friend, Newman & Berkowitz(l) 2−The Making of the President 1972, White (2) 3−The Joy of Sex, Comfort (3) 4−Sybil, Schre.'ber (4) 5−Marilyn, Mailer (7) 6−The Sovereign State of ITT, Sampson (5) 7−Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution, Atkins (6) 8−Weight Watchers Program Cookbook, Nidetch (10) 9−Laughing All the Way, Howar(9) 10−My Young Years, Rubinstein...