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A Remembrance through the Review

By on February 1, 2009 in In the Blogosphere, The Mailer Review

Carloyn Kellogg remembers Norman Mailer’s 86th birthday by lauding volume two of The Mailer Review. In “Norman Mailer Is Not 86 Today,” she quotes passages from the Review and writes: I’d be happy if authors today appeared as frequently in the news, were as important cultural voices, or tried to run, obnoxiously, for mayor of [...]

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Obama Like JFK

By on January 19, 2009 in Politics

Fred Kaplan, in his article “Forget FDR and Lincoln; Obama Is Most Like JFK” for Slate, argues that “the Kennedy-Obama parallels are, in fact, deeper than they might seem.” Within, he cites — you guessed it — Mailer’s “Superman Comes to the Supermarket”: In the vapid Eisenhower years, he went on, the “life of politics [...]

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