Via the New York Times: Barbara Probst Solomon, Who Wrote of Spain Under Franco, Dies at 90.

Loving] has written a eulogy for Rip Torn for the Walt Whitman Quarterly in which Mailer is mentioned.

In highly anticipated ‘White Negroes,’ Lauren Michele Jackson offers nuanced critique of cultural appropriation.

Francis Wade, in the LA Review of Books reads “‘The Armies of the Night’ in an Age of Youth Protest.”

Via Hudson Valley One: “The Fugs will exorcise Washington again, from Byrdcliffe Barn.”

For The Hedgehog Review, Greg Jackson writes “Hipster Elegies”: The death and life of the great American hipster offers an alternative history of culture over the last quarter century.

More on Rip Torn from Wicked Local: Provincetown: “Rip Torn, wild man and actor, dies at 88.”

No one captured the Apollo era quite like Mailer did.

J. Michael Lennon reviews Douglas Brinkley’s account of JFK’s space legacy with an eye toward its Mailer connections.

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