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‘Norman Mailer: The Sixties’: A Turbulent Decade, an Exhaustive Collection, a Divisive Writer
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‘Norman Mailer: The Sixties’: A Turbulent Decade, an Exhaustive Collection, a Divisive Writer

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 / 12 September 2018

Despite Mailer's literary merit, his persistent fetishizing of the black body in his writing during the '60s gets tiresome. Yet we can't ignore these works.

On Norman Mailer, Jack Henry Abbott, and the Legacy of Going Too Deep Into the Belly of the Beast
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On Norman Mailer, Jack Henry Abbott, and the Legacy of Going Too Deep Into the Belly of the Beast

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 / 19 May 2017
How Norman Mailer, while preparing 1979's The Executioner's Song, collaborated with Jack Henry Abbott and opened doors that should have remained shut.