Norman Mailer

(c)Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, All Rights Reserved
May 9, 2003.

Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal and Kurt Vonnegut visited the studio to sit for a group portrait for Vanity Fair Magazine. Later each writer posed alone...

Their anger over the American invasion of Iraq brought them together for the session.

Read more tributes to Norman Mailer on HuffPost here.

Comments

[init]

Yes, they all saw the fall of america, before it happened. Mailer: Boredom is the underlying illness of the twentieth century; boredom slays more of existence than war. That was the 1900's. If that was boredom, then WTF is this?

[JGatsby]

Mailer saying some very cogent things about protest, propoganda, and the need for the left to win the middle:

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/12/1448219

[esquire07]

They all saw the fall America - before it happens.

Soon America will be a two bit Military state where fear and death fill every American street.

Dick Cheney is going to Nuke an American City by this time next year. There will be no 08 elections.

America already has a decider.

[Balloonman]

NAKED AND THE DEAD. Read it when it came out. Never forget, sticks with me to this day how true to nature, the poignant image of the youngman dying from a throat wound, trying to hold back the gushing blood, embarrassed.

[trevor01]

Mailer enjoyed life too much to be a great writer. Good for him.

[ljsfolly]

I am sure he will enjoy the company of the friend gone before him. His words live on and we give thanks for them and him.

[sorenmeetsdylan]

With the exception of Vidal, who could at least compopse a lucid sentence, vanity was all they had to offer. It's too bad Vidal's politics are mostly incoherent, for he is our last decent critic -- plus he was right about Mailer, all gas. Vonnegut is worse than terrible as a writer, novelty for the sake of novelty, precisely what is wrong with the state of American letters.

[amosduncan]

Read a lot of Mailer way back when; I think his Convention stuff ( collected in "Some Honorable Men") may be his best writing. Now that the conventions are shadowplays, devoid off any real meaning; his may stand as the most memorable record.