NORMAN Mailer.
Gore Vidal, with whom he frequently wrangled, once wrote: “Mailer is forever shouting at us that he is about to tell us something we must know or has just told us something revelatory and we failed to hear him or that he will, God grant his poor abused brain and body just one more chance, get through to us so that we will know. Each time he speaks he must become more bold, more loud, put on brighter motley and shake more foolish bells. Yet of all my contemporaries I retain the greatest affection for Norman as a force and as an artist. He is a man whose faults, though many, add to rather than subtract from the sum of his natural achievements.”
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November 12th, 2007 at 5:16 am
Norman Mailer’s faults were Norman Mailer.
I could barely read his novels - The Deerpark has to be the worst, he put the name of the resort were it was set in nearly every sentence - no matter what anyone tells you he was a shit writer, and an incoherent thinker. But his life, his letters, his biographical jottings, his interviews and his stardom were a work of genius.