Horny old Jew slain by Christ. I'm no expert on the man, but from what I can gather he was some kind of a commie who said that America's youth should all turn into negroes instead of going to kill gooks in Vietnam. He will not be missed, anyway.
Well, crusading against women's lib is fair enough, but most of that other stuff just sounds sinful as wrong. Six wives sounds like Mormon behaviour, and if there's one thing we definitely don't need, it's more Mormon Jews.
Norman Mailer, the two-times Pulitzer prize winner who was a dominating presence on the US literary scene across seven decades, has died today, his editorial assistant said. He was 84.Mailer had undergone lung surgery in October.
In more than 40 books and a torrent of essays, Mailer provoked and enraged readers with his strident views on US political life, and the wars in Vietnam and Iraq.
From his debut novel, "The Naked and the Dead," to literary journalism such as "The Armies of the Night," Mailer was credited as a writer who possessed insight, passion and originality.
Mailer built and nurtured an image over the years as pugnacious, streetwise and high-living. He drank, fought, smoked pot, married six times and stabbed his second wife, almost fatally, during a drunken party.
He had nine children, made a bid to become mayor of New York, produced five films, dabbled in journalism, flew gliders, challenged professional boxers, was banned from a Manhattan YWHA for reciting obscene poetry, feuded publicly with writer Gore Vidal and crusaded against women's lib.
In more than 40 books and a torrent of essays, Mailer provoked and enraged readers with his strident views on US political life, and the wars in Vietnam and Iraq.
From his debut novel, "The Naked and the Dead," to literary journalism such as "The Armies of the Night," Mailer was credited as a writer who possessed insight, passion and originality.
Mailer built and nurtured an image over the years as pugnacious, streetwise and high-living. He drank, fought, smoked pot, married six times and stabbed his second wife, almost fatally, during a drunken party.
He had nine children, made a bid to become mayor of New York, produced five films, dabbled in journalism, flew gliders, challenged professional boxers, was banned from a Manhattan YWHA for reciting obscene poetry, feuded publicly with writer Gore Vidal and crusaded against women's lib.


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