Literary-Writing News
Mailer’s death diminishes American writing and ‘letters’
Norman Mailer died yesterday, one of the first truly “modern” American novelists and a pioneer in “protest journalism” whose work stands as an important legacy.
Although Mailer’s chief aspiration was to write the fabled “Great American Novel” that would tower over all other American novels, his work about a Vietnam war protest, “The Armies of the [...]
