Considering Norman Mailer and His Work: a Letter

James Brookfield begins by reconsidering the literary merits of Barbary Shore, Norman Mailer’s second novel, is his article “Considering Norman Mailer and His Work: a Letter.” Brookfield positions his article as a response and commentary on Andras Gyorgy’s recent “The Postwar Novelist in Regression: Norman Mailer (1927-2007)” — mostly a commentary on the “socialist” Mailer. Read both on the World Socialist web site.