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Via The Nation, “Lauren Michele Jackson Wants to Change How We Talk About Appropriation”: “I honestly can’t remember when I first encountered White Negro|Mailer’s essay], but it was in the back of my head as I was compiling this project and thinking of a name for it.
Via Deadline, “Mailer Tuchman Media Debuts Film And TV Slate Anchored By Norman Mailer Drama”: “Mailer Tuchman Media has launched with an initial slate of film and TV projects anchored by Mailer, a drama series about the late author/provocateur.
Via New York Times: “[Steal This Archive?
Nnedi Okorafor on influential books: “The book that changed my mind: The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer.
Via Slate, Matthew Dessem has some words for Donald Trump: “Some Lines, On the Occasion of Discovering That One of Donald Trump’s Border Plans Was a Moat Filled With Snakes.”
Via Variety, Toronto Film Review: “The Capote Tapes”: The people on the tapes include Mailer, who tells a terrific story about drinking with Truman in an old Irish bar and realizing what adrenaline (and courage) Capote must have lived with at every moment, and a friend who says that Capote swore by the motto, “Don’t ever let the truth get in the way of a good story.”