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Why Norman Mailer Mattered

I knew that Norman had been sick for a while and it was with great sadness that I learned of his passing. Another of  my literary heroes gone. I only got to meet him a few times but he was as powerful a presence in person as on paper. I cannot say how much he will be missed.

This great Time article by Richard Lacayo is amazing...

"His consolation in those hours when he was most uncharitable to himself is that taken at his very worst he was at least still worthy of being a character in a novel by Balzac, win one day, lose the next, and do it with boom! and baroque in the style." — Armies of the Night You can't say he didn't live up to his own expectations. In ten novels and almost two dozen other books, Norman Mailer not only did it with boom. He did it with brains and wit and nerve. He became what you might call the foremost pronouncer of his time.