Remembering Norman Mailer on his birthday 🎂
📷 Inge Morath, 1965
"He was the most transparently ambitious writer of his era, seeing himself in competition not just with his contemporaries but with the likes of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky."
- Charles McGrath
📷 Inge Morath, 1965
"He was the most transparently ambitious writer of his era, seeing himself in competition not just with his contemporaries but with the likes of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky."
- Charles McGrath
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From a modern perspective, he has dated views, certainly in parts mysoginistic.
But I have to say he was a great biographer and journalist.
Harlots ghost is incredible.
Armies of Darkness incredible.
So despite my issues with his voice, I remain a fan
Norman Mailer at home, Brooklyn, 1963
"Somewhere, something incredible happened in history - the wrong guys won."
De Hirsch Margolis, Shel Silverstein, Sylvia Topp, Bill Godden, Gloria Schoffel, James Baldwin, Howard Hart, Norman Mailer, Ted Joans & Lester Blackiston
📷 Fred W. McDarrah, January 23, 1961
📷 Neil Leifer, 1974
"Vertigo took George Foreman and revolved him. He went over like a six-foot sixty-year-old butler who has just heard tragic news."
“I found out I was running with Ezra Pound,” Breslin told a friend, a remark intended not as an assessment of Mailer’s poetic talent but of his sanity.
https://washingtonpost.com/history/2019/06/15/f-bombs-insults-norman-mailers-epic-run-mayor-new-york/