Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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 Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 7:04 am Post subject: Norman Mailor's Legacy ... |
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The author campaigning for mayor of New York in 1969
I really don't have much to add to this nice article on the recently deceased author who I think seriously gave his best shot at becoming the "Heavyweight Champion of American Novelists" - ala Hemingway.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/69597?GT1=10547
American cultural history will also note that his was the first celebrity name to be dropped in Paul Simon's "A Simple Desultory Phillippic (or How I was Robert McNamara'd into Submission)" ... |
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