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75 Books…

By on November 16, 2008 in In the Media

From Esquire, via Collected Miscellany, comes “75 Books Every Man Should Read.” It lists Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead as #25 (I might have scored it higher than some of those above it) — in the company of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, DeLillo, Melville, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Faulkner, and Roth. This is, indeed, a man’s list — [...]

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NM & John Buffalo Converse & Book Miscellany

By on August 10, 2004 in In the Media

The New York magazine published a conversation “between a man of legendary fury and his son preparing to go to the barricades about the uses and abuses of Bush hatred.” Norman Mailer and John Buffalo converse in “Father to Son: What I’ve Learned About Rage.” Finally, three recent books have material on Mailer: Mickey Knox’s [...]

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