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…
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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.
“‘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…
“[Mailer] stalked the twentieth century like a proud satyr: hideous, provocative, funny and insightful, and always true to himself,” writes Tomiwa Owolade.
Literary Hub has published an excerpt from Joan Didion’s 1979 review of The Executioner’s Song .
Tomiwa Owolade revisits The Prisoner of Sex .
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.