Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Nov 10, 2007 12:17:26 GMT -6
Buh-bye, Norman. I briefly pause to acknowledge the passing of my fellow Brooklynite.
My awareness of Mailer came less through his writing and more from his frequent TV talk show appearances, especially Dick Cavett (particularly his battles with fellow-author Gore Vidal). Regardless of whether or not I agreed with him, I always found him to be a great intellect who constantly challenged me to think.
By CHARLES McGRATH
Published: November 10, 2007
Norman Mailer, the combative, controversial and often outspoken novelist who loomed over American letters longer and larger than any writer of his generation, died today in Manhattan. He was 84.
He died of acute renal failure at Mount Sinai Hospital early this morning, his family said.Mr. Mailer burst on the scene in 1948 with “The Naked and the Dead,” a partly autobiographical novel about World War II, and for the next six decades he was rarely far from the center stage. He published more than 30 books, including novels, biographies and works of nonfiction, and twice won the Pulitzer Prize: for “The Armies of the Night” (1968), which also won the National Book Award, and “The Executioner’s Song” (1979).
He also wrote, directed, and acted in several low-budget movies, helped found The Village Voice and for many years was a regular guest on television talk shows, where he could reliably be counted on to make oracular pronouncements and deliver provocative opinions, sometimes coherently and sometimes not.
Published: November 10, 2007
Norman Mailer, the combative, controversial and often outspoken novelist who loomed over American letters longer and larger than any writer of his generation, died today in Manhattan. He was 84.
He died of acute renal failure at Mount Sinai Hospital early this morning, his family said.Mr. Mailer burst on the scene in 1948 with “The Naked and the Dead,” a partly autobiographical novel about World War II, and for the next six decades he was rarely far from the center stage. He published more than 30 books, including novels, biographies and works of nonfiction, and twice won the Pulitzer Prize: for “The Armies of the Night” (1968), which also won the National Book Award, and “The Executioner’s Song” (1979).
He also wrote, directed, and acted in several low-budget movies, helped found The Village Voice and for many years was a regular guest on television talk shows, where he could reliably be counted on to make oracular pronouncements and deliver provocative opinions, sometimes coherently and sometimes not.
My awareness of Mailer came less through his writing and more from his frequent TV talk show appearances, especially Dick Cavett (particularly his battles with fellow-author Gore Vidal). Regardless of whether or not I agreed with him, I always found him to be a great intellect who constantly challenged me to think.
