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Mailer’s The Fight comes out on top in “World Book Day 2022: Five Unmissable Reads From The Ring.” Kieran Spratt writes: The meeting between an aging Muhammad Ali and the seemingly unstoppable George Foreman in the jungle of Zaire remains as important now as it did 48 years ago.
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Readers respond to Michael Mailer’s piece about his father and other “canceled” writers in the Boston Globe. A nuanced reading of ‘canceled’ writers - The Boston GlobeReaders respond to Michael Mailer’s piece about work by his father, Norman Mailer, and other ‘canceled’ writers.The Boston GlobeUpdated February 8,
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Barbara Mailer Wasserman is interviewed on Artscene by Erika Funke.
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Jason Epstein, Editor and Publishing Innovator, Is Dead at 93. Editor of Philip Roth, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Jean Strouse, E.L. Doctorow, W.H. Auden and Jane Jacobs, Epstein’s literary and marketing instincts brought quality paperbacks to American readers and led to the creation of The New York
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Michael Mailer writes “Canceling my father, Norman Mailer: The US needs to stop eating its own” in the Boston Globe. He argues, “It needs to stop canceling great writers who made essential contributions to our cultural vibrancy. Committing bad acts does not invalidate their cultural legacies.” Canceling my father, Norman
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David Klion argues that the The White Negro “deserves to be studied and situated in its context rather than censored for its antiquated racial language.” He reminds those proponents of cancel culture that Mailer “captured something urgent about [his] time, challenged an older generation’s conventional wisdom, and cultivated a
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Today would have been Norman Mailer’s 99th birthday.
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Michael Mailer contextualizes the Cancel Mailer controversy and makes an argument for publishing companies to be a place for the “free exchange of ideas” in “What Norman Mailer’s ‘Cancellation’ Reveals.” Via The Spectator. Mailer continues: This row isn’t just about my father. It points to a larger issue
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In “The effort to ‘delete’ American novelist Norman Mailer,” David Walsh argues that “[t]he censorship of Mailer’s work has a thoroughly reactionary, antidemocratic content.” Walsh summarizes the Cancel Mailer movement so far, putting in context with the other controversies in Mailer’s life. He continues: The issue of
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On the BFG Podcast #037, renowned book critic Carolyn Kellogg joins Neal Pollack to talk about the Cancel Mailer controversy, and Carolyn refers to the second half of Harlot’s Ghost as a great book, and says that even when she didn’t agree with Mailer’s outrageous opinions, he
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“If Norman Mailer can be cancelled, no one is safe,” argues Tim Black, perhaps overstating the issue based on the facts, but his point is strong. He continues: This ought to chill the bones of anyone concerned about freedom today. Because if a figure as towering as Mailer can be
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“‘The White Negro’: Norman Mailer’s Essay 65 Years Later” by Peter Dreier considers Mailer’s 1957 essay in light of current events and concludes “For all its many inexcusable flaws, ‘The White Negro’ was an important essay for its time and a yardstick for measuring how we discuss race