Mind you, to be canceled is to be recognized as very good, so my friend Norman Mailer has to be first in line.

Ralph Keyes of Literary Hub discusses Mailer’s infamous fug and factoid in “When in Need of the Right Word, Great Writers Simply Make Them Up” and gets it…

John Whiteway writes: In 1968 as a 19 year old college student I came down to New York from Canada hoping to get work in the film business for the summer.