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challengeme rated 2 months ago- Someone worth reading about.
- dobedobedo rated 6 months ago
- Today's Birthday Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 - November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, screenwriter, and film director. Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of creative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism, but which covers the essay to the nonfiction novel. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize twice and the National Book Award once. In 1955, Mailer, together with Ed Fancher and Dan Wolf, first published The Village Voice, which began as an arts- and politics-oriented weekly newspaper initially distributed in Greenwich Village. In 2005, he won the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from The National Book Foundation. ~*~ Quotes ~*~ Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that. Part of the ability to keep writing over the years comes down to living with the expectation of disappointment. It's the exact opposite of capitalism. In capitalism you want your business to succeed, and to the degree it does your energy increases, and you go out and buy an even bigger business. In writing it's almost the exact opposite. You just want to keep the store going. You're not going to do as well this year as last year probably, but nonetheless let's keep the store going. What ruins most writers of talent is that they don't get enough experience, so their novels tend to develop a certain paranoid perfection. Norman Mailer
- snapish rated 8 months ago
- I'd really sort of forgotten what a personality Mailer was in his younger and wilder days until the slew of obituaries. I wonder how he'd feel that the obits seem to be less about his books and more about things like his six wives (one of whom he stabbed with a penkinife), anti-Vietnam activities, public spats with Gore Vidal, help obtaining the release of convicted murderer (who killed again 6 weeks after his release) and his ability to deliver sound bites (before the phrase was invented).
From the NYTimes obit: "'I think the novel is on the way out,' he said. 'I also believe, because it's natural to take one's own occupation more seriously than others, that the world may be the less for that.'" - I'd really sort of forgotten what a personality Mailer was in his younger and wilder days until the slew of obituaries. I wonder how he'd feel that the obits seem to be less about his books and more about things like his six wives (one of whom he stabbed with a penkinife), anti-Vietnam activities, public spats with Gore Vidal, help obtaining the release of convicted murderer (who killed again 6 weeks after his release) and his ability to deliver sound bites (before the phrase was invented).
- Ytube1 rated 8 months ago
- R.I.P.
