"America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind."
- Norman Mailer [Advertisements for Myself (1959)]
For millions of Iraqis, Mailer's observation ought to include every passively compliant American citizen, not just WASPs.
Peace and justice writer Norman Mailer died at 84 early today.
I'll have a drink to him today. I'll do something towards justice for him in my life.
And I'll never forget his The Armies of the Night, Mailer's brilliant and good-humored account of the 1967 March on the Pentagon that brought to the fore the obscene, bullshit Vietnam War. Mailer's portrayal of peace lovers is loving, funny and insightful, just like the man.
Whenever someone like Mailer dies, and we lost some brilliant and generous minds these past few months, I think of George W. Bush and how much I despise the lying bastard and his bullshit wars that none of us can ever do enough to resist and reverse.
- The Nation: Norman Mailer--The Good Father (Katrina vanden Heuvel)
- The Nation: Norman Mailer Brawled With Bush to the Bitter End (by John Nichols)
- The Independent: The electric-haired gladiator of American letters (by David Usborne)
- The New York Times' CHARLES McGRATH on Mailer
- Irish Times on Mailer
- The Guardian, Norman Mailer: Death of an Icon
- Reuters: Mailer -- Towering Figure of U.S. Literature
- Time: Why Norman Mailer Mattered (by RICHARD LACAYO)
- Telegraph (UK): Tributes pour in for Norman Mailer (by Philip Sherwell in New York and Julie Henry)
- Chicago Tribune: A tough-nosed novelist (by Julia Keller)
- Paul Krassner: Remembering Norman Mailer
Mailer despised lies about War: The intrinsic lie of governments through history. To honor Mailer's passing: Robert Parry's Bush Favorite Lie.
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- Norman Mailer [Advertisements for Myself (1959)]
For millions of Iraqis, Mailer's observation ought to include every passively compliant American citizen, not just WASPs.
Peace and justice writer Norman Mailer died at 84 early today.
I'll have a drink to him today. I'll do something towards justice for him in my life.
And I'll never forget his The Armies of the Night, Mailer's brilliant and good-humored account of the 1967 March on the Pentagon that brought to the fore the obscene, bullshit Vietnam War. Mailer's portrayal of peace lovers is loving, funny and insightful, just like the man.
Whenever someone like Mailer dies, and we lost some brilliant and generous minds these past few months, I think of George W. Bush and how much I despise the lying bastard and his bullshit wars that none of us can ever do enough to resist and reverse.
- The Nation: Norman Mailer--The Good Father (Katrina vanden Heuvel)
- The Nation: Norman Mailer Brawled With Bush to the Bitter End (by John Nichols)
- The Independent: The electric-haired gladiator of American letters (by David Usborne)
- The New York Times' CHARLES McGRATH on Mailer
- Irish Times on Mailer
- The Guardian, Norman Mailer: Death of an Icon
- Reuters: Mailer -- Towering Figure of U.S. Literature
- Time: Why Norman Mailer Mattered (by RICHARD LACAYO)
- Telegraph (UK): Tributes pour in for Norman Mailer (by Philip Sherwell in New York and Julie Henry)
- Chicago Tribune: A tough-nosed novelist (by Julia Keller)
- Paul Krassner: Remembering Norman Mailer
Mailer despised lies about War: The intrinsic lie of governments through history. To honor Mailer's passing: Robert Parry's Bush Favorite Lie.
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