Word: mailers
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Norman K. Mailer ’43, one of the world’s most eccentric and widely acclaimed authors, might have required two canes to walk into First Church in Cambridge last Thursday, but once he began to speak, he needed no one’s aid to keep the audience mesmerized. Though ostensibly there to speak about his new novel, “The Castle in the Forest,” the two-time Pulitzer winner weighed in on everything from Adolf Hitler’s genitalia and Hillary Clinton’s buttocks to the Iraq...
...have a lawyer with an imposing 6-ft. 5-in. frame and a high-profile list of legal contests, if not victories. Ivan Fisher made his name defending Jack Henry Abbott, a convicted killer whose gritty prison memoir, In the Belly of the Beast, was famously championed by Norman Mailer. Fisher is no stranger to bad guys. In the 1990s, Fisher defended Haji Ayub Afridi, a man widely believed to be one of Pakistan's major narcotraffickers, as well as someone who was thought to have worked closely with the CIA during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Afridi served...
Norman K. Mailer ’43 is and always has been a controversial writer. And it’s hard to think of an historical figure more synonymous with the word “controversial” than Adolf Hitler. So when Mailer publishes his first novel in a decade, and it takes as its subject the deeds of Hitler, one expects a certain amount of controversy; but when the pre-release press for “The Castle in the Forest” focused almost exclusively on Mailer’s decision to include a bibliography...
...what if-just for argument's sake-you got insanely rigorous about it. You went to all the big-name authors in the world-Franzen, Mailer, Wallace, Wolfe, Chabon, Lethem, King, 125 of them- and got each one to cough up a top-10 list of the greatest books of all time. We're talking ultimate-fighting-style here: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, modern, ancient, everything's fair game except eye-gouging and fish-hooking. Then you printed and collated all the lists, crunched the numbers together, and used them to create a definitive all-time Top Top 10 list...
...middle, with The Brothers Karamazov, but turns a sharp corner at #9 with The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead, and another at #10 with Independent People by Halldor Laxness. The quintessentially American Tom Wolfe starts by reeling off four French classics in a row. Norman Mailer revives John Dos Passos's out-of-fashion U.S.A. trilogy for his #6 (and shows uncharacteristic forebearance by leaving his own works off the list). And so on. (At times one reads in the knowledge that one is being messed with. There's an outside, screwball chance that David Foster Wallace really...