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Sep. 28, 2018
A pugilist at the riots: Norman Mailer’s ‘Sixties’ collection
“Norman Mailer: The Sixties: A Library of America Boxed Set” (2018) shows Mailer as really one of the inventors of what came to be called the “New Journalism.”
Richard Wirick
Partner
Risk Management and Insurance Litigation (RMIL) Practice Group at Haight, Brown & Bonesteel LLP (Haight).
Norman Mailer was a better journalist than fiction writer. Between "The Naked and the Dead" (1946) and his brilliant "The Executioner's Song" (1979), few of his novels matched his long essays on contemporary culture, social affairs, film and other writers. This new volume, "Norman Mailer: The Sixties: A Library of America Boxed Set" (2018) shows Mailer as really one of the inventors -- along with Tom Wolfe, John Sack, Gay Talese and a few others -- of what came to be ...
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