"Now, more than ever, America needed a hero. Was he Norman Mailer?"

"There is,at least on the surface, an insistent buffoonery to [Norman Mailer's] self-projected public image that can be difficult to take seriously."

Norman Mailer has fallen out of favour, for good reason, as has Commentary (at least with my bunch) but I have been thinking about this essay by James Toback. I blog about Mailer here. 

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"No, I will make you cry"